Professor Samuel Nii Odai is the Vice Chancellor of Accra Technical University and a renowned Ghanaian expert in hydraulics and water resources. He holds a BEng in Irrigation and Water Conservancy Engineering from Hohai University and an MSc and PhD in Computational Hydraulics from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Professor Odai has held various academic roles at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), including full professor and Pro Vice Chancellor. A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has received the National Best Research Scientist Gold Award and leads the Welcome Trust-sponsored SNOWS project. He is also a Commonwealth Academic Fellow