Jeph Acheampong

Jeph Acheampong is a Ghanaian-American businessman.^[1][2]

Jeph Acheampong
Born	(1994-03-17) 17 March 1994 (age 31)
Education	New York University, Harvard University
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Organization	Blossom Academy
Website	jacheampong.com

He is an Expo Live Global Innovator, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and was named a Future of Ghana Pioneer.^[3]

Early life and education

Acheampong was born in Accra, Ghana and grew up in New York.^[4] He graduated high school in 2012 from Forest Hills High School (New York). Acheampong went on to study economics at New York University. Later, he pursued a masters at Harvard University.^[5]

Career

While at New York University, Acheampong founded Anansi Global, a humanitarian fashion company. In 2018, he founded Blossom Academy, Ghana's first Data science academy.^[6][7]™ He was also a founding member of Esusu Financial, and a co-founder Blossom Corporate Training, which upskills working professionals in leadership skills.^[8][9]

In 2016, he was awarded the NYU President’s Service Award. In September 2021, he was featured on CNN’s What's the Big Idea and was recognized by Nigerian newspapers as 1 of the 5 Most Influential People making an impact.^[10][11]

In 2022, the Government of Ghana appointed Jeph Acheampong to support the development of the Ghana National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2023-2033.^[12] He was invited as a speaker by West Africa Business Forum for youths and young women entrepreneurs from 15 countries across Africa, and also at the 2024 World Youth Development Forum in Guangzhou, China.^[13][14]

He is an advocate for systemic change that addresses the root causes of poverty and unemployment.^[2] In 2025, he was listed among the top ten Under-40 African Ivy League Graduates making an impact in Africa, and a finalist in the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge.^[15][16]

Awards and recognition

He is a 2018 Princeton in Africa Fellow, a 2023 Acumen Fellow, and a 2024 Social Innovation + Change Initiative Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.^[17][18][19]