Dr Kwesi Botchwey

Former Minister of Finance

Education: LLB, University of Ghana; LLM, Yale Law School, United States; PhD, University of Michigan Law School, USA.

Career: Law Professor at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the University of Ghana, and Tufts University, US; Minister of Finance, National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, 1982-95; appointed Director of Africa Research and Programmes, Centre of International Development, Harvard University, 2003.

Commentary: Kwesi Botchwey is currently a member of President John Atta Mills' Economic Advisory Council along with former Prime Minister Paul Victor Obeng, Trade Minister Hannah Tetteh and GNPC Director Kyeretwie Opoku. . Under Former President Jerry Rawlings, he was Ghana's longest standing Finance Minister and pioneered the country's economic reforms and Structural Adjustment Programmes in 1982-1996.He ran unsuccessfully against John Mills in the NDC primaries.