Dr. Kwame Asamoah Adam is a Ghanaian and a professional forester with 45 years working experience. He was nominated and elected to serve on the AFF Governing Council in 2022 representing the private sector group of AFF. He holds the following Academic Qualifications: PhD (Forest Harvesting); MSc (Forest policy and Planning) both from University of Aberdeen UK; BSc (Natural Resource Management Forestry Option) University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

In his career practice he has been involved in natural forest management; plantation development; Forest policy; Forest operations planning, timber enterprise planning, forest inventory; timber harvesting; project formulation and management; research and human resources development. He has worked in government, non-governmental and private sector organizations.

Currently he is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Timber Millers organization (GTMO) where his responsibilities include advising the GTMO Council on technical issues relating to Timber Resource Management, Forest Policy and Administration, Timber Utilization Contract Area Management and; conducting evidence-based research to support advocacy. Before joining GTMO he was a Research Scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana for 19 years and earlier in his career an Assistant Conservator of Forest with the former Ghana Forestry Department.

Since 2012 has been on the board of the Ghana Shippers authority representing the shipping interest of the manufacturing companies. He is also on the FAO Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest Industries- which looks at the impacts of international policies on forest industries and make recommendations to national and regional governments through the FAO for improvement.