Nii Odai

Nii Odai Laryea is a product of St. Theresa’s Preparatory School, Kaneshie, Prempeh College in Kumasi and Tarkwa Secondary School. He took his first degree in Sociology/Geography at the University of Ghana, Legon and a masters’ degree in Regional Planning at the then University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

Aside teaching at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast for his National Service in 1980-81, he has also had short stints at St. Augustine’s College, Mpraeso Senior and Teshie Presbyterian Senior Secondary Schools. He worked as a Research Officer at the then Water Resources Research Institute of CSIR for about 5 years before venturing into consultancy into WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) issues. The consultancy work has sent him to work on a number of rural water and sanitation projects country-wide with the UNDP, IGIP a German Consultancy firm and since the year 2000, he has been working with MAPLE Consult on a number of projects. His work entails proposal writing, workshop facilitation, socio-economic research, writing and presentation of academic papers etc. These are primarily within the areas of decentralization and local government, development planning and public sector management as well as institutional capacity development and training.

He loves football, boxing and writing. Nii Odai is married and been blessed with three children.