A Senior Oil and Gas professional with over three decades of upstream Oil and Gas Industry
experience. He has been at the forefront of promoting Ghana’s Oil and Gas potential. He
played a key role in the discovery, development and production of the Jubilee, TEN Sankofa-
Gye Nyame and and Pecan fields and has been instrumental in the design and implementation
of all upstream oil and gas policies.

He played a technical and strategic advisory role in the multi-disciplinary team that Ghana
established for preparing and putting across her case before the International Tribunal on the
Law of the Sea (ITLOS) that delimited the Ghana – Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Boundary. He
has also played a key role in the institutional and regulatory reforms in the sector, post the
Jubilee oil discovery. He led strategic planning teams on numerous occasions to develop
plans and strategies for the Energy sector in Ghana. Notable among them is the GNPC
strategy for attracting independents into the petroleum industry and the drafting of a blueprint
for Ghana’s petroleum industry. He served on the board of the Ghana Gas Company.
He has, as well been involved in management duties at the University of Ghana, served as a
member of the Management Committee, University of Ghana Business School, School of
Physical and Mathematical Science and is currently, the Chairman of the Steering Committee
of GNPC Research Chair in Petroleum Geoscience at the Department of Earth Science.

Thomas Manu has an honorary Doctor of Science degree, and an Executive MBA degree
from the University Ghana. He also has an MSc. Degree in Exploration Geophysics from the
Moscow institute of Exploration Geology.
Dr. Thomas Manu is currently the Vice President (Exploration and Production) for the
Springfield Group.