Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (born July 24, 1949) is a Ghanaian American economist who is a professor of economics and economics department chair at the University of South Florida, and a former president of the National Economic Association. He serves on the editorial boards of Southern Economic Journal and the Journal of African Development.^[1]

Gyimah-Brempong was born in Kintampo, Ghana, and received a BA with Honors from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana in 1974.^{[citation needed]} He came to the United States in 1975 and earned a PhD in economics from Wayne State University in 1981.^{[citation needed]}

Gyimah-Brempong has taught at the New College of Florida from 1981 to 1988, and at Wright State University from 1988 to 1994. Since 1994, he has been a professor of economics at the University of South Florida.^{[citation needed]} From 2002 to 2004 he was the Economics Program, Director for the National Science Foundation.^[1] His research focuses on economic development in Africa. He has been president of the National Economic Association.^[2] In 2016, the Association for the Advancement of African Women Economists held a conference in his honor.^[3]

• Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena. "Corruption, economic growth, and income inequality in Africa." Economics of governance 3, no. 3 (2002): 183–209.
• Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, and Mark Wilson. "Health human capital and economic growth in Sub-Saharan African and OECD countries." The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 44, no. 2 (2004): 296–320.
• Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, Oliver Paddison, and Workie Mitiku. "Higher education and economic growth in Africa." The Journal of Development Studies 42, no. 3 (2006): 509–529.
• Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, and Samaria Munoz de Gyimah-Brempong. "Corruption, growth, and income distribution: Are there regional differences?." Economics of Governance 7, no. 3 (2006): 245–269.
• Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, and Thomas L. Traynor. "Political instability, investment and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of African Economies 8, no. 1 (1999): 52–86.

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