Anthony Yaw Baah

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Anthony Yaw Baah (born 27 December 1966) is a Ghanaian trade unionist. Since 2016, he has been the president of the Ghana Trades Union Congress. He is also a board member of the National Development Planning Commission, which is a Ghanaian state agency committed to eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities in deprived areas and rural communities. [1]

He holds a BA Economics with French from the University of Ghana, an MSc. Financial Economics from the BI Norwegian Business School, and a PhD. in Economics from the University of Sussex.

Yaw Baah was hired as a researcher for the Ghana TUC in 1993. He was elected without opposition in 2016 after securing the support of 16 of the 17 federated unions. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Anthony Yaw Baah".
  2. ↑ "Economics PhD alumnus appointed as Secretary-General of Ghana Trades Union Congress". The University of Sussex.


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