Dr. Pascal S. Doh is Founder of a Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation in 2019 and of A Europe-Africa Diaspora Professional Network. He is specialised in Higher Education (HE) Management and Governance and resident in Finland. He holds a Ph.D in Higher Education Management from the University of Tampere, Finland, an M.Phil/Master in Higher Education Policies from the Universities of Oslo (Norway), Tampere (Finland) and Aveiro (Portugal) under the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Commission (2007). Currently, he is a senior researcher at the University of Turku, Finland.
Dr. Doh has been involved for close to two decades in studies, teaching, research and consultancy in higher education management and policy issues, especially the entrepreneurial transformation of Universities. He has published widely in international journals in Europe and Africa including a dominant focus on HE and poverty reduction in Africa, role of the University in national innovation systems, Community innovation systems, the funding of HE, professionalisation in HE, Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial University as well as quality assurance and the challenges of harmonisation of the Anglophone and Francophone higher education systems in Africa. He has participated in over 60 higher education policy Conferences in Europe and Africa including with renown organisations such as UNESCO, OECD, EC, EUA, AAU, CUD-Belgium, ADEA and done consultancy in related international organisations. He is bilingual in English and French. He also course teacher on the role of the entrepreneurial university in the national innovation system, in the Master of Research and Innovation in Education, Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Commission at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is Lecturer to several African Universities: Cheikh Anta Diop, the Gambia, University of Yaounde 2. He has been focal point of the Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation, partnership of University of Turku, Finland and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, therefore the Director of the course "Building African Entrepreneurial Universities" by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.