Kwadwo is currently in the final year of his PhD study in Development Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Ghana and hopes to complete in March, 2021. Before his PhD studies, Kwadwo worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management of the University of Ghana Business School, where he provided academic assistance in the area of economics. He also worked as a graduate assistant at the Department of Economics of the University of Ghana.

In the area of research, Kwadwo has assisted many senior researchers in several research projects and has attended and presented in several academic conferences. He has gained significant experience in multiple areas of economic development including economics of the environment, poverty and inequality dynamics in developing countries and economics of urban resilience. This makes him versatile and easy to be rotated across different areas of development. His PhD thesis focus on utilizing various stated-preference valuation techniques to infer economic values on non-market environmental goods and services such as those found in the management of household solid waste in Ghana. Other aspects of his thesis utilize theories in behavioral economics to investigate whether individual personality traits, economic preferences and social interactions have any influence on the adoption of inappropriate disposal of solid waste by Ghanaian households.

In the course of his PhD journey, Kwadwo has been a visiting PhD fellow at World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) based in Helsinki, Finland, and has also provided research assistance for two separate research projects. Further, together with his PhD advisor, Kwadwo has recently co-authored a paper on the determinants of economic, environmental and social sustainability for Ghanaian enterprises using the World Bank Enterprise Survey for Ghana; and has submitted same to the Journal of the Knowledge Economy for publication. As a research intern at the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR, Ghana node), Kwadwo was directly involved in generating and analysing data as well as writing aspects of the initial findings of an inequality diagnostic report for Ghana. He also provided assistance on a research project aimed at investigating spousal differential earnings, household division of labour and fertility choices in Ghana together with some members of faculty at the economics department of the University of Ghana.