Gideon is an experienced international development research and M&E scholar-practitioner with enormous project planning and management skills. He has conducted academic and professional assessments in the fields of governance and public policy, migration, border security, project management, monitoring & evaluation, education, gender, community health, environment, water and sanitation, and produced technical papers and reports.

As a development practitioner/consultant, Gideon worked for several national and international partners including the Department of State (USA) through the US Embassy in Accra, Siemens Stiftung (Germany), the UK National Audit Office, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies [ICwS] at the University of London (UK) and UN system organisations – UN Migration Agency (IOM), UNESCO IICBA, UNICEF; Coffey International Development UK & ITAD UK; Ghana Government institutions – Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ministry of Education and Judicial Service of Ghana. Others include The John A. Kufuor Foundation, STAR Ghana (Funded by USAID, UKAID, EU, DANIDA), West Africa AIDS Foundation, IDEG, Christian Council of Ghana, International Cocoa Initiative, Right to Play Ghana, CEPRESE, WiLDAF Ghana, ActionAid Ghana, SNV Ghana, and SWISS Red Cross Ghana.

Gideon read Geography and Resource Development with Political Science for his Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons) degree, a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degree in Geography and Resource Development and Migration Studies for his PhD, all at the University of Ghana. He held two Visiting Fellowship Awards at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) of the University of Sussex, Falmer Brighton, UK in 2003 and 2007 as a scholar-practitioner in collective action around service delivery with the Governance Research Team of the IDS. Gideon Hosu-Porbley as an Adjunct Research Methods lecturer, blends the theory and practice of research and explains the reasoning behind the choice of specific research approaches and analytical methods.