A former Minister of State at the Finance Ministry under the Kufuor administration, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei. is reported dead.
Dr Akoto Osei, who was also a former Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo Constituency of the Ashanti Region died on Monday.
The late MP was 64 years old.
Biography of Dr Akoto Osei
Date of Birth: 1953-04-18
Place of Birth:Sunyani, Ghana
Anthony Akoto Osei was a Ghanaian banker and politician. Osei was in the cabinet of President John Agyekum Kufuor as Minister of State for Finance and Economic Planning.
He was a member of Parliament for the electoral district of Tafo /Pankrono in the Ashanti region.
He also worked as Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning in May 2003 and was a major economic adviser to the government.
On 27 March 2002, he became a member of the Management Board of Merchant Bank (Ghana) Ltd. Previously, he worked as Associate Professor at Dollard University (USA) and previously as a Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Analysis (Ghana).
In May, 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo named Anthony Akoto Osei as part of nineteen ministers who would form his cabinet. The names of the 19 ministers were submitted to the Parliament of Ghana and announced by the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Prof. Mike Ocquaye.
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