Mr. Abdul-Aziz Ussif is an applied economist and researcher with over 7 years working experience in the Cocoa Industry.

Prior to joining Adom Cocoa Buying Company Limited, he worked as a Researcher with the at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness as well as the Regional Institute for Population Studies, all at the University of Ghana. He also led a team of enumerators during the Ghana Census of Agriculture.

Mr. Ussif holds an MSc. And BSc. in Economics and Agriculture Economics from the Kwame University of Science and Technology, and has published a couple of highly rigorous econometric research papers in reputable Journals including access to credit, productivity and rice farmers welfare in Ghana: a conditional mixed process regression, understanding recent dynamics: prosperity and longevity in Ghana and the effect of fuel prices on agriculture output growth in Ghana.