Mohammed Amin Adam, the Member of Parliament for Karaga Constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana has been named as the new Finance Minister to replace woeful failure Ken Ofori-Atta.
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has announced a ministerial reshuffle which has seen some Ministers sacked whilst others have been reassigned.
Ken Ofori-Atta, longtime Finance Minister has been sacked and replaced by Mohammed Amin Adam.
Mohammed Amin Adam was previously Deputy Minister for Energy. He also served as a Minister of State at the Finance Ministry.
Other Ministers such as Kojo Oppong Nkrumah were reassigned.
Below is the list of new Ministers released by President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Ministers designate
Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye – Health
Ophelia Mensah Hayford – Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation
Fatimatu Abubakar – Information
Dakoa Newman – Gender, Children and Social Protection
Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah – Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development
Lydia Seyram Alhassan – Sanitation and Water Resources
Andrew Egyapa Mercer – Tourism, Arts and Culture
Titus Glover – Greater Accra Region
Daniel Machator – Oti Region
Deputy ministers designate
Sylvester Tetteh – Information
Vincent Ekow Assafuah – Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development
Charles Acheampong – Communications and Digitilisation
Adelaide Ntim – Health
Alexander Akwasi Acquah – Health
Dr. Prince Hamidu Armah – Works and Housing
Akwasi Konadu – Lands and Natural Resources
Musah Abdul Aziz Ayaba – Fisheries and Aquaculture Development
John Kobina Sanie – Energy
Collins Adomako Mensah – Energy
Kingsley Nyarko – Education
Festus Awuah Kwofie – Employment and Labour Relations
Benjamin Sekyere Yeboah – Gender, Children and Social Protection
Who is Mohammed Amin Adam?
Hon. Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam is currently the Finance Minister designate for Ghana. He was formerly the Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance. He is the member of Parliament for Karaga Constituency.
Prior to assuming his role as the Minister of State, Hon. Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam was the Deputy Minister for Energy responsible for the Petroleum Sector.
He was appointed as the Deputy Regional Minister for the Northern Region in 2005.
Hon. Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam has worked extensively on extractive industries and Resource Management as a University lecturer, advisor on Resource Governance and as a campaigner for transparency in resource management around the globe.
Prior to his role as the Deputy Minister for Energy, he was the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP). He also worked in other Public and Private organizations as an Energy Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Energy in Ghana, Commissioner of Ghana Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, the Africa Coordinator of extractives industries in Ibis amongst many other positions held.
Hon. Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam was educated in the Northern school Business from 1988 to 1990. He holds a PhD. in Petroleum Economics from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law, and Policy (CEPMLP) of the University of Dundee in UK specializing in Petroleum fiscal policy in resource – led economies and resource governance. He also has an MPhil (Economics) and B.A (Hons) Economics from the University of Cape-Coast. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Certified Economist of Ghana (ICEG).
He has undertaken professional development training at Colombia University, University of Texas at Austin, and Harvard University in the US. He is chairman of Ghana’s National Energy Transition Committee, chairman of the Gold for Oil Initiative and Chairman of the New Producers Group (a group of new oil and gas producing countries in the World).
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