Minister for Finance and Economic Planning

The Minister for Finance and Economic Planning is the Ghanaian government official responsible for the Ministry of Finance of Ghana. The Minister for Finance since January 2017 has been Ken Ofori-Atta, co-Founder and former Chairman of the Databank Group (an investment banking firm) in Ghana[1]. He was appointed by President Akufo-Addo following the Ghanaian general election in December 2016. Kwesi Botchwey stayed in office the longest (1982 to 1995), first under Jerry Rawlings as Secretary for Finance in the PNDC military government and then as Minister for Finance in the constitutionally elected Rawlings government at the beginning of the Fourth Republic and was in charge of the Economic Recovery Programme under the auspices of the World Bank which oversaw major economic reform in Ghana.

List of ministers

The first Ghanaian to head this ministry is Komla Agbeli Gbedemah who assumed this position in 1954 when the Britain allowed Kwame Nkrumah to form a government prior to gaining full independence in 1957. The Ministry has at various times been designated as Ministry of Finance or as it is currently, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.

Number Minister Took office Left office Government Party
1Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
(First Ghanaian in this position)		19541957Colonial governmentConvention People's Party
19571961Nkrumah government
2Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka1961?
3Akwasi Afrifa19661969National Liberation CouncilMilitary government
4Joseph Henry Mensah1969?Busia governmentProgress Party (Ghana)
5Ignatius Kutu Acheampong1972?National Redemption CouncilMilitary government
6Amon Nikoi??
7Robert K. A. Gardiner??Supreme Military Council (Ghana)
8J. L. S. Abbey?1979
19791979Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
9Amon Nikoi19791981Limann governmentPeople's National Party
10George Benneh19791979
11Kwesi Botchwey19821993Provisional National Defence CouncilMilitary government
19931995Rawlings governmentNational Democratic Congress
12Richard Kwame Peprah19952001
13Yaw Osafo-Maafo20012005Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
14Kwadwo Baah Wiredu20052007
15Anthony Akoto Osei20072009
16Kwabena Duffuor20092012Mills governmentNational Democratic Congress
20122013Mahama government
17Seth Terkper20136 January 2017
18Ken Ofori-Atta[2]27 January 2017incumbentAkufo-Addo governmentNew Patriotic Party

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Profile of Ken Ofori-Atta". Ministry of Finance Ghana. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Nana Addo swears in 12 ministers". Ghanaweb. Ghanaweb. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
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