31 Facts About Kwabena Duffuor

Kwabena Duffuor served as the governor of the Bank of Ghana.

Kwabena Duffuor is a Fellow of the Akuafo Hall, University of Ghana, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Kwabena Duffuor is the founder and president of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in Ghana, a non-profit think-tank providing economic advocacy and training which he established in March, 2013.

Kwabena Duffuor is the founder of uniBank which controversially collapsed in 2018.

In 1958, Kwabena Duffuor entered Prempeh College in Kumasi for his secondary school education through the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board scholarship, where he obtained both his O-Level and A-Level certificates in 1962 and 1964 respectively.

Kwabena Duffuor proceeded to the University of Ghana where he graduated in 1968 with a B Sc.

Between the years 1973 and 1979, while working with GCB Bank, Kwabena Duffuor obtained a USAID and African Graduate Fellowship Awards to pursue further studies at Syracuse University in New York.

Kwabena Duffuor obtained an MBA in Finance and Banking, an MA in economics in 1975 and a PhD in 1979, all from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at the Syracuse University.

Kwabena Duffuor was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Finance in 1979 at the same university.

Kwabena Duffuor started work with the Ghana Commercial Bank in 1969, where he rose to become chief economist and head of research department.

Between 1982 and 1991, Kwabena Duffuor worked full-time as a banker.

Kwabena Duffuor worked as a part-time lecturer in economics, finance and banking at the Economics Department and the School of Administration at the University of Ghana.

Kwabena Duffuor was appointed an external examiner in finance from 1985 at the university.

Kwabena Duffuor held this position till his four-year term ended in September 2001.

In July 1995, Kwabena Duffuor was appointed the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, and therefore came back home.

Kwabena Duffuor was nominated Ghana's man of the year by the readers of The Independent newspaper.

In March 2003, Kwabena Duffuor was appointed chairman of the Presidential Committee on Promotion and Revitalization of the Industrial Sector on Sustainable Basis.

Kwabena Duffuor is currently the chairman of Ghana Heart Foundation and Kumawuman Rural Bank.

Kwabena Duffuor has served in a number of directorship positions in various companies, including Accra Brewery Limited, Shell Ghana Limited, Ecobank Cote d'lvoire, State Gold Mining Corporation.

Kwabena Duffuor is a Fellow of the Akuafo Hall, University of Ghana, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Kwabena Duffuor was a member of the Convention People's Party.

Kwabena Duffuor was appointed as finance minister in John Atta Mills's National Democratic Congress government in February 2009.

In 1998, Kwabena Duffuor was voted "Personality of the Year" by the Independent newspaper in Ghana.

In May 2002, Kwabena Duffuor was honoured by the GCB Bank in recognition of his 26 years of loyal and dedicated service to the bank as well as the honour done to the bank in his appointment to the high office of the governor of the Bank of Ghana.

In September 2002, The Ashanti Regional chapter of the Rural Banker's Association's appreciated and honoured Kwabena Duffuor for being founder and first president of the association who made very significant contribution to the development of a vibrant rural banking industry in the Ashanti Region.

In July 2010, Kwabena Duffuor was awarded the International Distinguished Merit Award by the West African Insurance Institute, in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the development of Insurance in Africa and specifically for his unreserved support for the promotion of insurance education in the region and especially to the West African Insurance Institute.

Kwabena Duffuor received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Banking and Finance from Corporate Initiative Ghana, organizers of Ghana Banking Awards, at a ceremony held in December 2014.

In July 2015, Kwabena Duffuor received an Exceptional Achievement Award from GUBA at an event that took place at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, London.

Kwabena Duffuor was a founder of uniBank, a defunct major Ghanaian bank.

Kwabena Duffuor has attempted to regain control of the bank by countersuing the Ghana Government alleging the bank had been effectively expropriated.

Kwabena Duffuor's son has sued the administrator KPMG and its staff alleging deceit and that they aimed to enrich themselves by deliberately misleading the Government into collapsing the bank.