Executive Director
Charles K. Boakye
Infrastructure Strategist | Systems Architect | Industrialisation Advocate
Charles K. Boakye is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute for Infrastructure Development (IID). He is a civil engineer, infrastructure strategist, and systems thinker with over three decades of experience in infrastructure planning, institutional reform, and industrial development across Africa.
Throughout his career, he has led and contributed to nationally significant masterplans spanning infrastructure, aluminium, iron and steel, industrialisation, infrastructure finance, and institutional transformation. His approach integrates engineering, policy, capital markets, and governance into unified development systems.
Professional Experience
Mr. Boakye worked at the World Bank for over fourteen (14) years as a Senior Municipal Engineer. During this period, he worked across multiple African countries, supporting large-scale Local Government reforms, Roads and Railway development programmes, Water Supply systems, Housing and Urban Development initiatives, and major institutional strengthening projects. His work combined technical engineering expertise with governance reform, financial structuring, and public-sector capacity building.
Strategic Direction
Under his leadership, IID has emerged as a forward-looking African think tank committed to designing practical, bankable, and implementable frameworks that move nations from vision to execution.
Systems Transformation
Mr. Boakye is widely recognised for advancing a systems-based model of national transformation, linking infrastructure delivery to industrial value chains, domestic capital mobilisation, currency stability, and long-term economic resilience.
Leadership at IID
He continues to champion infrastructure as the foundation of prosperity, not merely as physical assets, but as integrated systems that shape productivity, opportunity, and national destiny.