Bio

Lewis Abedi Asante is an Associate Professor in Housing and Urban Development at the Kumasi Technical University and a Fellow at Center for Advanced Study in the Bahavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is an interdisciplinary urban geography scholar with expertise in housing, urban development, environment and sustainability. Since 2018, he has built an impressive publication record of about 30 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals including Housing Studies, Cities, Habitat International, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Urban Geography, Geoforum and Environment and Urbanisation. His scholarship has advanced southern urban theory through novel concepts including hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance, mal-ket, politically induced displacement, and wetland gentrification. He has secured multiple research grants as Co-Principal Investigator, with support from the German Research Foundation and the Cambridge Africa Alborada Research Fund. His consultancy experience includes work on the nexus between land and affordable housing for the World Bank and another on urban politics and political economy of African cities for the African Cities Research Consortium. Overall, Prof Asante is a leading African urban scholar whose work bridges theory, policy, and practice, offering contextually grounded and innovative insights into complex urban challenges on the continent.