He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Ghana.

[1][2][7][8] Hammond became a member of parliament from January 2001 after emerging winner in the General Election on 7 December 2000.

[5] In the year 2000, Hammond won the general elections as the member of parliament for the Adansi-Asokwa constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

He was elected over Theresa Mensah of the National Democratic Congress, Nana Yaw Frimpong of the People's National Convention, Kwame Amoh of the Convention People's Party, Peter Kofi Essilfie of the National Reformed Party and Prince Lawrence of the United Ghana Movement.

In January 2024, his party confirmed him as its parliamentary candidate for the general election in December 2024.

[25] K. T. Hammond also served as Deputy Energy Minister in the John Kufuor's Administration from the year 2001 to 2007.

[26] Before Parliament's appointments committee in 2023, Hammond cited Ghana's discovery of oil in commercial quantities in 2007 as his biggest achievement.

I was mandated to travel all over the world to look for entrepreneurs, companies and to see if they could make sense of our potential.

Mr. speaker, it was i, KT Hammond, in May 2004 who signed MOU which eventually led to KOSMOS discovering that oil in Ghana.

That was the big achievement," Hammond told parliament when he appeared to be vetted for consideration as minister for Trade and industry.

[1][28] He is married to Nabeela Naeema Wahab Sahiba, a high Court Judge.