Emmanuel Atwam

Former Digital Forensics Investigator, Cybercrime Unit, Ghana Police Service, and CYBERUS Erasmus Mundus Scholar

Emmanuel Atwam

Emmanuel Atwam is a cybersecurity specialist and former Ghanaian police officer with seven years of law enforcement experience across digital forensics, cybercrime investigation, police intelligence, and administration. He is an Interpol-trained investigator, an alumnus of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), a member of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), and contributes as a faculty member of the Trust & Safety Africa Academy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Knutsford University College, Ghana, graduating as valedictorian in 2022 while serving in law enforcement. He subsequently pursued the CYBERUS Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Cybersecurity, specialising in IoT Cybersecurity, with academic mobility across Université Bretagne Sud (France), Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

His industry and research experience includes product cybersecurity at Volvo CE (Sweden), Open RAN security research at ETRO-VUB (Belgium), and master’s thesis work at Keysight Technologies. His work bridges cybercrime investigation, security engineering, AI and MCP security, and emerging cybersecurity research.