Hackman Owusu-Agyeman

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Hackman Owusu-Agyeman
Member of Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office  1997
Constituency	New Juaben North
Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing
Incumbent
Assumed office  2005
Born	November 22, 1941 (1941-11-22) (age 66)  Koforidua, Ghana
Political party	New Patriotic Party
Alma mater	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Occupation	Agricultural Economist

Hackman Owusu-Agyeman is the member of Parliament for New Juabeng North constituency in Ghana. He is also a minister in the New Patriotic Party government in the Fourth Republic of Ghana.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Politics 4 Source 5 External links

[edit] Education

Hackman Owusu-Agyeman was born on November 22, 1941 at Effiduase- Koforidua in the Eastern Region of Ghana. His secondary education was at Saint Augustine's College, Cape Coast. Between 1961 and 1965, he attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture. He then studied at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, where he obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Planning. He then proceeded to the Wye College at the University of London in the United Kingdom where he got a Master's degree in Agriculture in 1969.

[edit] Career

In 1965, he started work as an Agricultural Economist at the Ghana Ministry of Agriculture. In 1970, he moved to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy. He worked in various capacities as Economist at the Economic Analysis Division, Field Programme Officer and then as FAO-Regional Co- operation, and Liaison Officer responsible for Africa. After 1979, he became the FAO Representative in Zambia and then Trinidad and Tobago. He became Chief Regional Bureau for Africa in 1984.

[edit] Politics

Mr. Owusu-Agyeman became the Member of Parliament for the New Juabeng North constituency after the 1996 parliamentary elections and has held on to the seat in the 2000 and 2004 elections. After the NPP won the December 2000 elections, he was appointed the Foreign Minister from January 2001 to April 2003. He then became the Minister for Interior for two years. Since 2005, he has been the Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing.

[edit] Source

• Ghanaweb

[edit] External links

Profile on Ghanaweb

Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by ?	Member of Parliament for New Juabeng North 1997 – present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Victor Gbeho	Foreign Minister 2001 – 2003	Succeeded by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Preceded by Malik Al-Hassan Yakubu	Minister for Interior Affairs 2003 – 2005	Succeeded by Papa Owusu Ankomah
Preceded by Alhaji Mustapha Idris Ali (Minister for Works and Housing)	Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing 2005 – present	Incumbent

Persondata
NAME	Owusu-Agyeman, Hackman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Effiduase, Koforidua, Eastern Region, Ghana
DATE OF DEATH	Living
PLACE OF DEATH