Robert Darko Osei is a professor of development economics at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), based in University of Ghana, Legon, and is currently the Dean for the School of Graduate Studies at the same university. His main areas of research include evaluative poverty and rural research, structural transformation and its implications for poverty and inequality, and other economic development policy concerns.
He is currently the Country Director for the Ghana node of the African Centre of Excellence in Inequality Research (ACEIR). Robert serves on several boards, nationally and internationally, and is currently a co-chair of the Digital Agricultural Innovations and Services Initiative (DAISI), an initiative which is being jointly managed by J-PAL (based in MIT, USA) and the Center for Effective Global Action (based in UC Berkeley, USA). He currently serves as a board member of the Ghana Statistical Service and Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited.