Dr. Fredua Agyemang

Dr. Fredua Agyemang is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SARChI Chair in Cities, Law, and Environmental Sustainability (CLES), Faculty of Law, North-West University. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from North-West University, a Master’s in Town and Regional Planning from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and two Master of Laws (LLM) degrees in Public Law, one in Extractive Industry Law in Africa from the University of Pretoria and the other in Environmental Law from the University of the Western Cape. In addition, he obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of South Africa and a BSc in Land Economy from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He has received multiple awards in recognition of his academic excellence, including the NRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award, the Growth Bursary Award (UWC), and postgraduate merit and doctoral bursaries from North-West University.
His research focuses on resilient cities, particularly urban informalities, energy transition, climate change, disaster risk management, and mining, while also exploring the interaction between law and policy in areas such as climate governance, disaster risk reduction, energy governance, and natural resource management.