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 2025 is Cassiel Ato Forson. 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 (MP)(First Ghanaian in this position) 1954 1957 Colonial government Convention People's Party 1957 1961 Nkrumah government 2 Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka (MP) 8 May 1961 1964 3 Kwesi Amoako-Atta (MP) 1964 1966 4 Akwasi AfrifaEmmanuel Noi Omaboe 1966 1969 National Liberation Council Military government 5 Joseph Henry Mensah (MP) 1969 1972 Busia government Progress Party (Ghana) 6 Ignatius Kutu Acheampong 1972 ? National Redemption Council Military government 7 Amon Nikoi ? ? 8 Robert K. A. Gardiner 14 October 1975 May 1978 Supreme Military Council 9 J. L. S. Abbey ? 1979 1979 1979 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council 10 Amon Nikoi 1979 1981 Limann government People's National Party 11 George Benneh 1981 1981 12 Kwesi Botchwey 1982 1993 Provisional National Defence Council Military government 1993 1995 Rawlings government National Democratic Congress 13 Richard Kwame Peprah 1995 2001 14 Yaw Osafo-Maafo 2001 2005 Kufuor government New Patriotic Party 15 Kwadwo Baah Wiredu 2005 2007 16 Anthony Akoto Osei 2007 2009 17 Kwabena Duffuor 2009 2012 Mills government National Democratic Congress 2012 2013 Mahama government18 Seth Terkper 2013 6 January 2017 19 Ken Ofori-Atta 27 January 2017 February 2024 Akufo-Addo government New Patriotic Party 20 Mohammed Amin Adam February 2024 6 January 2025 21 Cassiel Ato Forson (MP) 22 January 2025 Incumbent Mahama 2nd government National Democratic Congress
See also Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (Ghana)
Notes - Kwesi Botchway has been the longest serving Finance Minister. He served from 1982 to 1993 under the PNDC government and from 1993 to 1995 in the same portfolio under the NDC government under Jerry Rawlings. In all he served a total of 13 years.
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