The government has constituted a 12-member Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy, assembling a high-powered team of experts from academia, public service and the private sector to provide strategic direction on critical national economic matters.
Vice President Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is a member of the group, alongside respected economist and private sector leader Mr Kwame Pianim and renowned industrialist Sir Samuel Esson Jonah.
The group also includes Mr Ishmael Yamson, a private sector leader and former member of PAGE; Ms Nana Oye Mansa Yeboaa, former Deputy Minister of Finance, former Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry and former member of PAGE; Dr Kwabena Duffuor, economist, former Governor of the Bank of Ghana and former Minister for Finance; and Mr Ato Brown, former World Bank Infrastructure Specialist and agribusiness investor.
Other members are Dr Henry A Kofi Wampah, former Governor of the Bank of Ghana; Togbe Afede XIV, economist and private sector leader; Ms Abena Amoah, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Stock Exchange; Prof Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, a university professor and academic researcher; and Prof Patience Aseweh Abor Ph D, also a university professor and academic researcher.
The establishment of the Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy underscores the President’s resolve to tap into deep national and international expertise to strengthen economic governance, enhance strategic policy coordination and promote evidence based decision making. The objective is to address current economic challenges while laying a solid foundation for long term growth and resilience.
The group will operate as a non-partisan advisory body to the President, offering guidance on macroeconomic management, fiscal consolidation, debt sustainability and coordination between fiscal and monetary policy. It will also advise on structural transformation, industrial development, competitiveness and export-led growth.
In addition, the advisory group will provide strategic input on sectoral development, private sector expansion, investment mobilisation and sustainable job creation, while supporting the design and implementation of major productivity enhancing reforms.
The team is expected to conduct periodic reviews of Ghana’s economic performance and recommend policy adjustments where necessary. It will also contribute expert advice to Ghana’s engagements with bilateral and multilateral development partners, international financial institutions and investors.
The Presidential Advisory Group on the Economy will report directly to the President and submit advisory briefs, memoranda and periodic strategic reviews as required.
