Daniel B. Sarpong (PhD) is an Associate Professor and Dean, School of Agriculture, University of Ghana. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (StC-HLPE) of the UN-FAO CFS-FSN. He is a product of the University of Ghana, International University of Japan (IUJ) and Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

He was the Chair/Head, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana, on three occasions between 2006 and 2017. He was from 2012-2014 the Vice Dean, School of Agriculture, under the then College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences (CACS), University of Ghana. He has been teaching and undertaking research and extension work at the University of Ghana since September 1998. He teaches Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Research Methodology and Statistics and Econometrics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He provides scientific analysis of socio-economics of agricultural households and their impacts on the macro-economy. He has led the Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness in providing several consultancy extension works to governmental, non-governmental and international organizations. He recently partnered Sustainable Food Labs, UK, to undertake the Cost of Living Assessment for Cocoa Growing Regions in Ghana (Living Income Benchmark Study for Cocoa Growing Regions of Ghana).

He is the principal investigator and has also collaborated with others on studies commissioned by CIDA/MoFA; JICA/MoFA; MoFA-RTIMP, ACDI/VOCA ADVANCE; Center for International Health, School of Public Health, Boston University/University of Ghana; FAO; DFID/ISSER/WB; World Bank; CAADP-NEPAD, Futures Agriculture Consortium (FAC)-IDS-UK Climate Change and the University of Georgia Global Peanut Product Processing and Marketing Team. He is part of an international research team on Indicators of Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa (IANDA) Project and Changing Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa and South Asia (CANDASA), based at Tufts University, USA.