Accra, Nov. 19, GNA – Professor Kwesi Botchwey, a former Finance Minister, is reported dead today, Saturday, November 19, 2022, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Prof Botchwey, 78, Ghana’s longest serving Finance Minister, served in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) from 1982 to 1991 and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from 1992 to 1995.
A highly placed source in the NDC confirmed the death to the Ghana News Agency Saturday morning.
Kwesi Botchwey was a Professor of practice in Development Economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
He was also a member and Chairman of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Group of Independent Experts, who conducted the first ever external evaluation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment facility.
He was an advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) UN Special Initiative on Africa, the World Bank on the 1997 World Development Report, and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM).
Prof Botchwey had his secondary school education at the Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School before proceeding to the University of Ghana for his LL.B, an LL.M 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.
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