Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi is a Ghanaian political scientist and the co-founder of the Afrobarometer, a pan-African research project that surveys public attitude on political, social and economic reforms across African countries. He was the CEO of Afrobarometer from 2008 to 2021. He is the chair of its board of directors.
Gyimah-Boadi holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Ghana and a Master of Arts and Ph.D in political science from the University of California, Davis.
Gyimah-Boadi's research focusses on democratic politics in Africa, specifically political reforms and liberalism in Ghana. He was a professor at the University of Ghana, in the department of political science, from 1986 to 2014. He was the executive director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, a research and advocacy institute he co-founded.
In 2017, Gyimah-Boadi received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Peace and Social Justice, given by the US embassy to Ghana for advancing democracy, good governance, and economic opportunity.
In 2018, he was named the 2018 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of USA "for his outstanding scholarship and service to the Africanist community".
In 2019, he became an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
In 2021, Gyimah-Boadi was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine.