Mahamudu Bawumia

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Mahamudu Bawumia
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Bawumia in 2017
7th Vice President of Ghana
In office
7 January 2017 7 January 2025

From 1988 to 1990, Bawumia worked as a lecturer in monetary economics and international finance at the Emile Woolf College of Accountancy in London, England. He also served as an economist at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Bawumia also served as resident representative of the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe. [21]

Between 1996 and 2000, Bawumia served as an assistant professor of economics in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA, where he received a Young Researcher Award in 1998. He was listed in "Who Is Who Among America's Teachers” in 1999. He also published two books on monetary policy and economic development. [22]

Bawumia returned to Ghana in 2000 to work as an economist at the Bank of Ghana. He rose from senior economist to head of department and subsequently served as special assistant to the governor of the bank. President John Kufuor appointed Bawumia deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana in June 2006. [23]

At the Bank of Ghana, Mahamudu Bawumia

Shortly after the 2008 election, Bawumia resigned as deputy governor at the Bank of Ghana.

2008 elections

Mahamudu Bawumia was running mate to the New Patriotic Party candidate in the 2008 elections, Nana Akufo-Addo. [24] [25] [26] The NPP increased its share of the vote compared to 2004 in all the three Northern Regions, in both the first and second round. [27]

2008–2011

Bawumia served as a consultant to the Economic Commission of Africa between February and March 2009. Between April and October 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia Liu Centre for Global Studies and UBC Fisheries Centre. [27]

In October 2009, he was appointed as a Fellow of the International Growth Centre (IGC), a research institute based jointly at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Oxford University that provides advice on economic growth to governments of developing countries, specifically serving as an IGC Team Member for Sierra Leone. He also served as an advisor to the Central Bank of Sierra Leone on the redesigning of the organizational structure of the bank and its monetary policy framework. [28]

Between October 2009 and October 2010, he was a senior research associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. In January 2011, Bawumia was appointed resident representative of the African Development Bank for Zimbabwe by the African Development Bank. He served in this position until reappointed as the vice-presidential candidate to Nana Akufo-Addo on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for Ghana's 2012 presidential election. [28]

2012 elections

Bawumia was re-nominated as the Vice-Presidential Candidate to Nana Akufo-Addo for the 2012 General Elections in March 2012. [29]

The party won 10 seats in the Northern Region including Yendi, Walewale, Yagaba – Kubore, Bunkpurugu, Bimbilla, Chereponi, Kpandai, Tatale – Sanguli, Tolon and Zabzugu. It also won the Nabdam and Talensi Constituencies in the Upper East Region. Overall, Nana Akufo-Addo and Bawumia lost the presidential elections to John Dramani Mahama.[ citation needed ]

2016 elections

Nana Akuffo-Addo appointed Bawumia as his running mate in the 2016 presidential election. [30] [31]

2024 elections

On Friday, 16 June 2023, Bawumia filed his nomination to contest in the NPP Presidential primaries. [32] As part of the presidential primaries, Bawumia picked the tenth position after balloting for the selection of five contest for the final selection of the presidential candidate for the NPP in the 2024 election. [33] Bawumia, on 26 August 2023, won the super delegates congress election by the New Patriotic Party with 68%, beating nine other candidates in the build up to the party’s national delegates congress to elect their flagbearer. [34]

Bawumia has been elected to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Election 2024 as flagbearer. Bawumia won NPP presidential primary with 61.43% of total valid votes cast which happened on 4 November 2023 at 276 constituencies across the country and the Party Headquarters, Asylum Down, Accra. [35] [36] [37]

On Tuesday, 9 July 2024, Bawumia unveiled Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh as his running mate for the 2024 general elections. [38] [39] [40] [41] The unveiling took place at Jubilee Park in Kumasi. [42] [43]

On 8 December 2024, Bawumia conceded defeat to former President John Mahama in an address to the media at his residence. [44] [45]

Personal life

Bawumia is married to Samira Bawumia and they have four children. [46] He is a member of the Mabia (Mossi-Dagbon) ethnicity, shares same heritage with influential figures as Thomas Sankara, Alhassane Ouattara, Haruna Iddrisu, among others. [47] He is a Muslim. [48] Bawumia was named after Yaa Naa Mahamadu Bila, a king of Dagbon who ruled from 1948 to 1953. [49] The name Bawumia means "They have heard" in Dagbanli and Gmampruli languages.

Philanthropy

The Vice President is known for several philanthropic works. In October 2020, he formally commissioned an ultramodern mosque built and fully funded by him for use by the people of Prang in the Bono East area. [50] Dr. Bawumia had earlier in June same year settle over nearly 6 decades land lease arrears for the Kumasi Central Mosque. [51]

In September 2021, Bawumia pledged GHS 1500 monthly stipend to Psalm Adjeteyfio to take care of his rent and upkeep. [52] In May 2022, Dr. Bawumia donated an amount of GHs 20,000.00 to a taxi driver who returned missing GHs 8,400.00 to the owner. [53] In October 2021, Dr. Bawumia celebrated his 58th birthday with inmates of the Weija Leprosarium. [54] in October 2022, he celebrated his birthday with cured lepers from the Weija Leprosarium [55] and in October 2023, he celebrated his 60th birthday with the orphans at the Kumasi Children's Home. [56]

Other activities

Selected works

Initiatives

The Digital Ghana Agenda, led by the Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia has brought enormous transformation to the country, which include; [58] [59]

Scholarships and awards

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2017—2025
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