Kwesi Quagraine is a Lecturer and climate research scientist at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently investigating climate variability and change using machine learning approaches. This research includes looking at the co-behaviour of large-scale climate processes and their influences on regional climate by developing methodologies that accommodate possible nonlinear interactions of these large-scale processes, and help investigate the drivers of rainfall extremes over West Africa.