King Carl Tornam DUHO, ACMA, CGMA, CA

King Carl Tornam Duho, ACMA CGMA CA is an accounting economist with more than 10 years of experience in the private sector, public sector, academia and the think tank space. King consulted for UNICEF, Plan International, GIZ, AERC, Oxfam, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, INASP and was an ex-UNCTAD Intern. He worked as research assistant at the University of Ghana and trainee at Vanguard Assurance and Metropolitan Insurance, among others. He was a delegate to the World Bank Group Youth Summit 2021. King is a member of 3 global finance and accounting professional bodies and holds a Master of Philosophy in Accounting (and Finance).

King is the Founder and Technical Advisor for the Dataking Research Lab of Dataking Consulting. He is an Honorary Fellow of the VIT Centre for TVET Policy & Education and the Deputy National Coordinator of the AuthorAID Ghana Hub. He is also a Youth Fellow with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). King has led national level research and policy assignments as an academic and public policy analyst in Ghana, and other Global South countries. He was awarded the best reviewer during the Academy of International Business Africa (AIB) 2019 conference. He spoke at the Spring and Annual Meetings of the IMF and WBG in 2021 and 2022. His new book chapters address climate change, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and broader sustainability issues. King is an iconoclastic accountant who believes that research is paramount to reform the global accounting profession. Thus, he is learning under the tutelage of leading Professors in the US along these lines.

King believes in giving back and paying forward better, so he volunteers for youth-based institutions like the UN SDSN Youth and the Global Citizen Year Academy. 

King has presented at international conferences in the North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. King has published and reviewed for reputable journals like Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Financial Crime, and Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, among others. His op-ed articles appeared in The China Global South Project, The World Financial Review, and International Policy Digest, among others.

My research has also been referenced by the Deutsche Bundesbank, and The Africa Report, among others.