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 in Ghana. He was appointed by President Akufo-Addo following the Ghanaian general election in December 2016. Kwesi Botchwey stayed in office the longest, 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.
NumberMinisterTook officeLeft officeGovernmentParty
1Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
19541957Colonial governmentConvention People's Party
1Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
19571961Nkrumah governmentConvention People's Party
2Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka 8 May 19611964Nkrumah governmentConvention People's Party
3Kwesi Amoako-Atta 19641966Nkrumah governmentConvention People's Party
4Akwasi Afrifa
Emmanuel Noi Omaboe		19661969National Liberation CouncilMilitary government
5Joseph Henry Mensah 19691972Busia governmentProgress Party
6Ignatius Kutu Acheampong1972?National Redemption CouncilMilitary government
7Amon Nikoi??National Redemption CouncilMilitary government
8Robert K. A. Gardiner14 October 1975May 1978Supreme Military Council Military government
9J. L. S. Abbey?1979Supreme Military Council Military government
9J. L. S. Abbey19791979Armed Forces Revolutionary CouncilMilitary government
10Amon Nikoi19791981Limann governmentPeople's National Party
11George Benneh19791979Limann governmentPeople's National Party
12Kwesi Botchwey19821993Provisional National Defence CouncilMilitary government
12Kwesi Botchwey19931995Rawlings governmentNational Democratic Congress
13Richard Kwame Peprah19952001Rawlings governmentNational Democratic Congress
14Yaw Osafo-Maafo20012005Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
15Kwadwo Baah Wiredu20052007Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
16Anthony Akoto Osei20072009Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
17Kwabena Duffuor20092012Mills governmentNational Democratic Congress
17Kwabena Duffuor20122013Mahama governmentNational Democratic Congress
18Seth Terkper20136 January 2017Mahama governmentNational Democratic Congress
19Ken Ofori-Atta27 January 2017incumbentAkufo-Addo governmentNew Patriotic Party