Samuel Nii Odai is a Ghanaian professor of hydraulics and water resources, and a serving vice chancellor of Accra Technical University.
[1] He is a Commonwealth Academic Fellow, and a recipient of the National Best Research Scientist Gold Award for water, environment and sanitation.
He proceeded to the Koforidua Secondary Technical School where he sat for the General Certificate Examination (GCE) Ordinary and the Advanced Levels.
[2][3][4] He has served as examinations officer of the School of Engineering (now College of Engineering), deputy manager of the Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Project, manager of the Water Resource and Environmental Sanitation Project at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
[5] He is the international director of the UK-based Welcome Trust-sponsored project under the theme “Scientists Networked for Outcomes in Water and Sanitation” (SNOWS).