Minister for Finance and Economic Planning

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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 February 2024 is Mohammed Amin Adam [1] . 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.

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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
1 Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (MP) [2]
(First Ghanaian in this position)
19541957Colonial government Convention People's Party
19571961 Nkrumah government
2 Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka (MP) [3] 8 May 19611964
3 Kwesi Amoako-Atta (MP) [4] 19641966
4 Akwasi Afrifa [5]
Emmanuel Noi Omaboe [6]
19661969 National Liberation Council Military government
5 Joseph Henry Mensah [7] (MP)19691972 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 1975May 1978 Supreme Military Council (Ghana)
9 J. L. S. Abbey  ?1979
19791979 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
10 Amon Nikoi 19791981 Limann government People's National Party
11 George Benneh 19811981
12 Kwesi Botchwey a 19821993 Provisional National Defence Council Military government
19931995 Rawlings government National Democratic Congress
13 Richard Kwame Peprah 19952001
14 Yaw Osafo-Maafo 20012005 Kufuor government New Patriotic Party
15 Kwadwo Baah Wiredu 20052007
16 Anthony Akoto Osei 20072009
17 Kwabena Duffuor 20092012 Mills government National Democratic Congress
20122013 Mahama government
18 Seth Terkper 20136 January 2017
19 Ken Ofori-Atta [9] 27 January 2017February 2024 Akufo-Addo government New Patriotic Party
20 Mohammed Amin Adam [10] February 2024Incumbent

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^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.

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