Michael Achagwe Luguje

Biography:

Michael Luguje started his career with the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, technically in 1997.
1997-National Service Personnel at Port of Tema Training department delivering quality French lessons to staff of the Authority after obtaining his BA in French and Linguistics from the University of Ghana.

• January 1999.- formal employment with Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority He is fluent (both written and spoken) in English and French.
• 2004 & 2008 he had extensive training in Sweden and France where he obtained his Master of Science in Maritime Affairs (Port Management Specialization) and Executive MBA in Project and Strategic Management.
• Between 2001-2007 Michael has served in many capacities as a senior management level employee of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority.
• 2007-2012 the accomplished bilingual port management specialist was appointed as the Regional Coordinator for West and Central Africa-International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
• 2012-2018 technical secondment to the Ports Management Association of West and Central Africa (PMAWCA) where he was in his second year of his second term as the Secretary General of the Association based in Lagos, Nigeria.

He has extensive international experience in the ports sector of West and Central Africa; and a reforms and change expert with remarkable achievements in team building, employee motivation, as in strict adherence to service quality and productivity.

Professional Consulting experience:
• In his many years as a port Management expert, Michael has Consulted (short term advisory basis) for global investors with interest in Africa’s port sector through partner consulting firms including Qalis (France) and Alpha Sights (London/Dubai); (2015 – 2016).

• As an expert in Maritime issues especially within the West Africa Port Community, Michael has Provided key expert support services to a number of other renowned international consulting firms including MTBS (Holland), Duca Consulting (USA), BENOM Consult (Ghana), and CODEX SA (Cote d’Ivoire) ((since 2010) and also Consulted as Port Sector Specialist for a USAID funded Trade and Industry Programme for a Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE) project for Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry in Ghana (2008/2009).

• Michael’s early exposure to other international institutions relating to the maritime industry has prepared him with both institutional and industrial knowledge to move Ghana’s ports to an enviable position within the comity of ports.

Vision:
Michael has a stellar vision for the Authority. He wants to see the Authority competing with other ports outside the continent on best practices and profitability and has consistently been encouraging all staff and stakeholders to work in tandem to achieve this.

He believes in the inextricable synergy where one’s progress effectively translates into the others’ progress and the opposite is true. To this end, he has implored on stakeholders to as a matter of necessity, have frequent engagements with the Authority on how best they can all work together for the progress of all parties.