Eugene Eluerkeh is an Adjunct Faculty member at Ashesi University, where he teaches design thinking and entrepreneurship. He holds an Executive MBA in Marketing and a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Ghana, with professional credentials in new product development, higher education teaching, lean research, and design thinking from SMU, MIT Sloan, and Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

Eugene brings to the classroom over two decades of corporate and operational leadership experience, including six years as Chief Operating Officer of a growth-stage enterprise. His purpose is to connect business practice with reflective teaching and learning, preparing students and entrepreneurs to build successful ventures and contribute to sustainable economic transformation across West Africa.

He is currently Country Lead at GrowthAfrica-Ghana and Programme Manager for the Orange Corners Accelerator Programme, supporting entrepreneurs through venture acceleration, investment readiness, fundraising, and ecosystem development.

As an instructor-practitioner, his Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research focuses on experiential pedagogy and the responsible integration of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, into teaching and learning. His wider research interests explore how African enterprises build sustained innovation capabilities through human-centred design, new product development, value creation, and ecosystem development. Beyond the classroom, Eugene writes about faith, business, and leadership while growing PVL Africa, his innovation and strategy advisory practice.