Ken Ofori-Atta makes Ghana Proud.

Kene Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s finance minister wins this year’s ‘African Finance Minister Of the Year‘ at the Africa Banker Awards organised in partnership with Annual African Development Bank (AfDB), taking place in Busan, South Korea, after a string of macroeconomic performances which have helped boost confidence in Ghana’s economy, digitizing the economy and instituting measures to minimize probability and entrenching irreversibility, attracting investors and abolishing pessimistic views placed on the economic stability. Ghana’s economy has grown 3.7 percent to 8.5 in the years 2016-2017.

The question that we should ask is how can you inherit a budget deficit of 9.3% of GDP, proceed to reduce taxes, bring down inflation, bring down interest rates, increase economic growth, increase your international reserves, maintain relative exchange rate stability, reduce the debt to GDP ratio and the rate of debt accumulation, pay almost half of arrears inherited, stay current on obligations to statutory funds, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, double the capitation grant, implement free senior high school education and yet still be able to reduce the fiscal deficit from 9.3 per cent to an estimated 5.6 per cent of GDP, he shares.

The winners of the African Banker Awards reflect the innovation and energy within Africa’s banking market. The categories that most catch my eye are the deals of the year and the one on Innovation in Banking. They reflect the true energy and vigour of the banking sector. I cannot stress enough though the important role financial services have to play to drive the development of the continent. – Mr Omar Ben Yedder, Publisher of African Banker shares.

About Ken Ofori-Atta: Mr. Ofori-Atta, co-founder of Databank had his education at Achimota School and proceeded to have a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia University (1984) and an MBA from the Yale University School of Management in 1988. Ken founded Databank with Daniel Ofori-Atta, Keli Gadzekpo and Torgbui Afede in 1990. Ken serves as a director for numerous companies and member and some boards too. He is a Director for Enterprise Group Ltd and Trust Bank Ltd of The Gambia of which he is Chairman. He is a Director at the International Bank of Liberia and is also a Board Member of the Acumen Fund. Ken is a fellow of the Aspen Institute and was adjudged as the 2nd most respected C.E.O in Ghana. Ken is a Donaldson Fellow at Yale University and a recipient of the John Jay Award from Columbia University.

Adedayo Laketu

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