Dr. George A. Ameyaw is currently the BoD Chairman of the Cocoa Research Co-operative Credit Union. He is the Senior Research Scientist and, currently, the Ag. Head of the Bunso Substation of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Plant Virology (Plant Virus Epidemiology and Molecular Diagnostics) from the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He has been a researcher with extensive experience on the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD) menace in Ghana. He has held a Borlaug Fellowship at the University of Arizona (USA), with several other scientific visits to some Universities and Research Institutes’ in Wales, (University of Aberystwyth), Japan (Sapporo), France (CIRAD), Israel (Volcani Institute), and many other countries in the west African Sub-Region. He was the Vice - Chairman of CRIG Co-Operative credit union, Tafo from 2015 to 2018.