Yaw Osafo-Marfo

Yaw Osafo - Maafo is one of the best known bankers and politicians of Ghana. In addition to his post as Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and later as Minister of Education and Sports in the Ghanaian Cabinet he is a founding member of the ruling party New Patriotic Party.

Training

Osafo - Maafo received his secondary education at the prestigious Achimota School in Accra. For his outstanding academic performance, he was awarded by the Ghana Association of teachers in the natural sciences. He enrolled at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi in the tray engineering sciences. In 1967 he joined here as a mechanical engineer graduated from.

Osafo - Maafo moved in 1968 to the United States in order to retrain as an engineer here. At the Institute for Metal he graduated.

Career

Osafo - Maafo was set at a Ghanaian Bank, the Bank for Housing and Construction, and reached here until 1982 the post of Bank Director. Between 1982 and 1989 he worked in this position and expanded its economic ties, especially in the international financial market from.

In 1990 he was appointed by the then military dictator and later President Jerry Rawlings Director of the National Investment Bank by the then Provisional National Defence Council ( PNDC ). Osafo - Maafo was entrusted in this position with the aims of the government 's ambitious goals to restructure the loss-making bank. After only two years, it managed to achieve his profits.

In 1992 he was an engineer by the Ghanaian Association for representatives in the Constituent Assembly. Osafo - Maafo was able to make on the fourth constitution of Ghana, and in particular the financial constitution its influence.

He was, among other things beside Albert Adu Boahen founding member of the New Patriotic Party. Since 1996 he is member of the Ghanaian Parliament for the constituency of Akyem Oda ( Akyem Oda Constituency) and was founded in 2000 and in 2004 returned to office.

Between 2001 and 2005 Osafo - Maafo was Minister of Finance and Economic Planning ( Minister of Finance and Economic Planning) in the cabinet of President John Agyekum Kufuor. Between 2005 and April 2006, he worked in the second term of Kufuor in the office of the Minister of Education and Sports. The Ministry of Education and Sports has been extended in April 2006 to the department Science and continued by the Minister Papa Owusu Ankomah -.

Awards

In addition to his election to the Constituent Assembly of 1992, his honor is noteworthy for his outstanding service in the banking industry by the union of West African Bankers Association (West African Bankers Association) in 1989.