Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a Ghanaian cardinal and prominent figure within the Catholic Church. He has been serving as the chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences since 2022. Prior to this, he was president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 2009 to 2017 and became the inaugural prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, a role he held from 2017 to 2021.