1. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was born on 1953 and is a Ghanaian politician who was the Minister for Trade and Industry from 2014 to 2017 in the Mahama administration.
20 Facts About Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was Ghana's ambassador to the United States and Mexico.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah is a former CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah is chairman of Solarfi, a renewable energy company.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah began his basic education at the King Tackie School in Accra.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah's father was the first headmaster and founder of the Konongu Odumase Secondary School.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah completed coursework for a master's degree in communications from the same university and obtained a MA in International Affairs from Ohio University in Athens.
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Subsequently, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah received a graduate certificate for International Banking and Finance from New York University in 1984.
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From 1988 to 1991, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was a Corporate Relations Officer at the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank affiliate, in Washington, DC.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was in charge of the Public Education Committee which successfully re-introduced the VAT to Ghana after a disastrous first attempt in the early 1990s had left several protesters dead.
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From 2014 to January 2017 Ekwow Spio-Garbrah Spio-Grabrah served as Minister for Trade and Industry for the Republic of Ghana.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah supervised agencies such as the Ghana Free Zones Board, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, the National Standards Authority, the National Board for Small Scale Industries and the Rural Enterprises Programme.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah joined ECO after gaining international credibility through numerous high-level appointments on the world stage for nearly 45 years.
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In 2011, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was appointed chief executive officer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries International.
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Between 2012 and 2014, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was appointed the President of the Dominion University College, Accra, Ghana which is a private Christian University founded by Nicholas Duncan-Williams.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was responsible for all aspects of strategic planning for the academic programmes, financial and accounting policies, and human resources and administrative systems for the operations of the private Christian University.
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In December 2006, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah contested the leadership of Ghana's main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah remains a leading member of Ghana's current ruling party, the National Democratic Congress NDC.
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On 15 January 2010, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was elected a vice chairman of the NDC.
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Ekwow Spio-Garbrah was named Director of the Communications of the party from 2001 to 2003.