Quist, Ronald: - Ronald Quist, born two years before Ghana gained its independence, has spent a life-time trying to reconcile his childhood ambition to "make his nation great and strong" with a lived experience of underdevelopment through a physics education at the University of Ghana and Queen's University in Canada, a diverse career in Power Planning in Liberia, Utility Analysis in the US, Software Development and Training in the US, Germany, Ghana, and Nigeria, Project Financing in the US and Ghana, and Public Finance Management work for the IMF, World Bank, European Commission, USAID, DFID, AfDB, and CIDA in over 30 countries including: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Yemen.