Minister for Finance and Economic Planning

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 January 2013 has been Seth Terkper, a former Deputy Minister of the same ministry. He was appointed by President Mahama following the Ghanaian general election. 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.

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.

Number Minister Took office Left office Government Party
1 Komla Agbeli Gbedemah
(First Ghanaian in this position) 		1954 1957 Colonial government Convention People's Party
1957 1961 Nkrumah government
2 Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka 1961 ?
3 Akwasi Afrifa 1966 1969 National Liberation Council Military government
4 Joseph Henry Mensah 1969 ? Busia government Progress Party (Ghana)
5 Ignatius Kutu Acheampong 1972 ? National Redemption Council Military government
6 Amon Nikoi ? ?
7 Robert K. A. Gardiner ? ? Supreme Military Council (Ghana)
8 J. L. S. Abbey ? 1979
1979 1979 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
9 Amon Nikoi 1979 1981 Limann government People's National Party
10 George Benneh 1979 1979
11 Kwesi Botchwey 1982 1993 Provisional National Defence Council Military government
1993 1995 Rawlings government National Democratic Congress
12 Richard Kwame Peprah 1995 2001
13 Yaw Osafo-Maafo 2001 2005 Kufuor government New Patriotic Party
14 Kwadwo Baah Wiredu 2005 2007
15 Anthony Akoto Osei 2007 2009
16 Kwabena Duffuor 2009 2012 Mills government National Democratic Congress
2012 2013 Mahama government
17 Seth Terkper 2013 incumbent

See also

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