Kwame Pianim

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Kwame Pianim is a celebrated Ghanaian business economist and investment consultant.

He is married to Dutch woman Cornelia Pianim. With her he has son Elkin Kwesi Pianim ( born 1970), a Vassar College trained corporate financer.

After ten years as a political prisoner he made a 1996 bid to run for the presidency of Ghana. Switching gears he found success as a businessman in Accra.

[edit] Political career

His attempts to contest for the 1996 presidential elections in Ghana on the ticket of the centre-right New Patriotic Party were scuttled when the Supreme Court ruled to uphold a controversial law preventing individuals convicted of treasonous acts against the republic from holding public office, even if such acts were committed during periods of unconstitutional rule. Following the Court's decision, he resigned from the to focus on private activities within the realm of developmental economics.

[edit] Economic/Finance Career

As an economist, his philosophy is multi-dimensional, but a consistent theme has been the essential incompatibility between the economic agenda of poor nations, or what ought to be their economic agenda, and the priorities of the Bretton Woods system.

[edit] Recent Acitivities

He currently heads the Public Utility Regulation Council (PURC) of Ghana, a high-level commission tasked with the responsibility of determining the price-levels of utilities.