Prof. Daniel A. Ofori is a Chief Research Scientist, working for CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana. His research interest is Forest Genetics and Conservation Biology. He is a national from Ghana with 23 years’ of post-doctoral experience in research, teaching, projects and organisational management. He holds a PhD degree in Forest Genetics from University of Aberdeen, M.Phil in Forest Tree Improvement from University of Edinburgh and a B.Sc in Agriculture from the University of Ghana.

Prof. Daniel Ofori’s employment history began in November 1989 with the National Mobilisation Programme as a Liaison Officer. He was subsequently recruited by the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana in June 1991, as Assistant Research Officer and rose through the professional ranks to Chief Research Scientist in 2010.

During this period, he served in many administrative positions including Head of Division for Tree Improvement and Seed Technology, Biodiversity and Land Use, head of Environment Biodiversity and Land Use Unit and Deputy Director of CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana. He joined the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) as Tree Domestication Scientist in April 2011 and coordinated research programmes in the following regions; West and Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, South East Asia and Latin America.

He was later appointed the Director of CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana in April 2015 and retired in April 2024. He is currently working for CSIR-Forestry Research Institute as a Chief Research Scientist on post-retirement contract and also teaching at the CSIR-College of Science and Technology as a Professor of Forest Genetics. He is a Fellow of Ghana Institute of Foresters and also the President of FORNESSA.