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
1	Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (MP)[2] (First Ghanaian in this position)	1954	1957	Colonial government	Convention People's Party
		1957	1961	Nkrumah government
2	Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka (MP)[3]	8 May 1961	1964
3	Kwesi Amoako-Atta (MP)[4]	1964	1966
4	Akwasi Afrifa[5] Emmanuel Noi Omaboe[6]	1966	1969	National Liberation Council	Military government
5	Joseph Henry Mensah[7] (MP)	1969	1972	Busia government	Progress Party (Ghana)
6	Ignatius Kutu Acheampong[8]	1972	?	National Redemption Council	Military government
7	Amon Nikoi	?	?
8	Robert K. A. Gardiner	14 October 1975	May 1978	Supreme Military Council (Ghana)
9	J. L. S. Abbey	?	1979
		1979	1979	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
10	Amon Nikoi	1979	1981	Limann government	People's National Party
11	George Benneh	1979	1979
12	Kwesi Botchwey^a	1982	1993	Provisional National Defence Council	Military government
		1993	1995	Rawlings government	National Democratic Congress
13	Richard Kwame Peprah	1995	2001
14	Yaw Osafo-Maafo	2001	2005	Kufuor government	New Patriotic Party
15	Kwadwo Baah Wiredu	2005	2007
16	Anthony Akoto Osei	2007	2009
17	Kwabena Duffuor	2009	2012	Mills government	National Democratic Congress
		2012	2013	Mahama government
18	Seth Terkper	2013	6 January 2017
19	Ken Ofori-Atta[9]	27 January 2017	incumbent	Akufo-Addo government	New Patriotic Party

See also

• Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (Ghana)

Notes

^a - Kwesi Botchway has been the longest serving Finance Minister. He served from 1982 to 1993 under the PNDC government and from 1993 to 1995 in the same portfolio under the NDC government under Jerry Rawlings. In all he served a total of 13 years.

References

1. "Profile of Ken Ofori-Atta". Ministry of Finance Ghana. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
2. Ghana Year Book. Accra: Graphic Corporation. 1961. p. 11. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
3. Ghana Year Book. Accra: Graphic Corporation. 1962. p. 206. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
4. Jakande, L. K., ed. (1965). "List of Ministers". West Africa Annual. James Clarke (8): 77. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
5. "Lt. Gen Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa Profile". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
6. "Ghana Today" Volume 11. 1967. p. 4. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
7. "Profile of the late Joseph Henry Mensah". www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
8. Paxton, J. (14 Sep 1972). The Statesman's Year-Book 1972-73. Macmillan. p. 309. ISBN 978-0333124062. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
9. "Nana Addo swears in 12 ministers". Ghanaweb. Ghanaweb. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.