About Us

Professor Francis Otoo was appointed the Ag. Director General of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority by His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama on 21 May 2025. Prof Otoo is a highly experienced academic researcher and consultant with over 18 years of professional experience in radiation protection or health physics, nuclear safety, and public health. He is renowned for contributions to national and international frameworks on radiation safety, policy formulation and capacity building. He has impactful leadership and collaboration with institutions like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations Committee on Scientific Effects and Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Piemonte, Ivrea (APRA Piemonte), and Fruili Venezia Guilia (ARPA-FVG), Udine, Italy and African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE), South Africa. He is also a Health Physics Associate Professor at the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security at the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana. He obtained his Ph.D. in Radiation Protection from the University of Ghana and ARPA-FVG, Udine, Italy in 2015, and is a member of the Health Physics Society, USA, International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), Leadership Committee Member, Young Generation Network, International Radiation Protection Association (YGN/IRPA), Ghana Nuclear Society (GNS), Research Scientist Association of Ghana (RSA), Ghana Science Association (GSA) and the President of the Elites Club of Aboadze. From 2019 – 2025, he was the Head of the Radon Laboratory and has been the Manager for the Radiation Protection Training and Consultancy Centre at the Radiation Protection Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission from 2022-2025. He is committed to advancing radiation safety and security for national development.

Prof. Francis Otoo,
Ag. Director- General, NRA

Dr. Dr. Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah is a global and population health scientist and medical sociologist. He is an eclectic scholar with trans and cross-disciplinary research expertise spanning the fields of population health, climate migration and health nexus, ethics and responsible artificial intelligence, infectious disease, pediatric HIV and gender intersectionality. Dr Dr. Appiah has held teaching and research roles in Universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Germany and Ethiopia. Dr Dr. Appiah is a consummate academic and researcher, published over 90 peer reviewed articles with over 32,000 citations globally, a prolific grantee with an extensively cut out niche for excellence in leadership and corporate governance. His varying consultancy, grant making, teaching,political leadership, research and mentoring disposition has enriched him with deep knowledge in strategic leadership principles and board room negotiations. He is an enthusiastic corporate governance practitioner with remarkable eye for financial prudence and excellence, integrity ,corporate transformation and change management. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and teaches courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Dr. Dr Appiah has had visiting lecturer roles at the Obstetrics and Gynecology department of the Pan African University Life and Earth Science Institute University of Ibadan, Nigeria and in universities in Kenya and University of Pretoria in South Africa. Dr. Dr Appiah served as a member of the scholarship board of Centre for International Health of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany in 2022-2023. He holds a PhD Reproductive Health Sciences from the Pan African University Life and Earth Sciences Institute University of Ibadan (Paulesi) in Nigeria and a PhD in Medical Research International Health from the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München (LMU) Germany, holds an MPhil Sexual Reproductive Right in Africa from the Law Faculty University of Pretoria, an MPhil Sociology from the KNUST and a Diploma in Health and Safety Management. He is a member of the International Association of Social Pediatricians, Fellow of the Afrique One Consortium on One Health consisting of 23 Africa. Between 2015 and 2016 he received nomination as Research Fellow by the Save the Children International, USA and was hosted in Ethiopia and was further nominated as a Fellow of The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of York, Canada. He was a pioneering mentee of the Global Health Security Agenda in 2018.Dr. Dr. Appiah has consulted for the GIZ, Save the Children, IOM, UNICEF and the WHO, IDOS-Germany. He is a Fellow of the Afrique One Consortium focusing on One Health, and a member of (International Migration Research Network) IMISCOE. Dr Dr Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah brings transformational mindset to NRA in pursuit of executing its mandate.

Dr. Dr. Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah,
Board Chair