Former finance minister Kwesi Botchwey is dead

Former finance minister Kwesi Botchwey is dead

Dr Kwesi Botchwey is reported to have died today (19 November) at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, where he was seeking medical care

Dr Kwesi Botchwey, who served as a finance minister first during the military era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) from 1982 to 1991 and then in the constitutional period of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from 1992 to 1995, is dead.

Dr Botchwey is said to have died today 19 November 2022, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where he has been the last few days seeking medical care.

Born on 3 September 1944, Dr Botchwey was 78 at the time of his death.

He will go down in the history books of Ghana as the longest serving Finance Minister. He served in office alongside Ghana’s longest serving head of state, the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings.

The late economist received his secondary school education at the Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School in Ghana. Dr Botchwey held an LLB from the University of Ghana, an LLM from Yale Law School and a doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School.

He taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University of Ghana. Other notable previous assignments of Dr Botchwey were advisor to the World Bank on the 1997 World Development Report.

Among other appointments, he served as a member and chairman of the IMF‘s Group of Independent Experts, which conducted the first ever external evaluation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility, and as an advisor to the UNDP‘s UN Special Initiative on Africa. He was also as an advisor to the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM).

Source: asaaseradio.com

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