Four top changes at Finance Ministry
The Government has made top management changes at the Ministry of Finance with the appointment of Ms Eva Mends as the first female Acting Director of Budget.
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She replaces Mr Sampson Asare Fianko, who reverts to his former position as a Deputy Controller and Accountant General. Ms Eva Mends, until her elevation, was the Group Head of the Public Financial Management Reforms at the Ministry.
She joined the ministry as a National Service Person in 1991. Positions she has held include Head of The Americas Desk in 1998, Head of Budget Development in 2006 and Group Head of Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms in 2013.
A release issued in Accra by the Public Relations unit of the Ministry also named Mr Eugene Asante Ofosuhene as the acting Controller and Accountant General.
Mr Ofosuhene comes to this position with a wealth of experience. As a former Deputy Controller and Accountant General, he was responsible for management of the government treasury.
Mr Ofosuhene is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (U.K. & Ireland) and Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) Ghana. He has a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance option) from the University of Ghana. He is also a graduate of the London School of Accountancy.
He takes over from Mr Seidu Kotomah, Controller and Accountant General, who has been reassigned to the Ministry of Finance.
According to the release, Mr David Klotey Collison, a Chief Budget Analyst, and Mr Sampson Akligoh, a Technical Advisor to the Minister of Finance, have also been appointed Directors of Public Investment Division and Financial Sector Division of the ministry respectively.
Mr David Klotey Collison joined the Civil Service as an Assistant Budget Analyst at the Ministry of Finance in December 1995. Until his recent appointment as Director in charge of Public Investment, he was the Group Head, Budget Development, and was responsible for Compensations Management and Co-ordination of the National Budget Development Process from February 2015.
Mr Collison graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Agriculture, majoring in Agricultural Economics, from the University of Ghana in 1993. He also obtained a Master’s in Business Administration (Finance option) from the same university in 2001.
Mr Sampson Akligoh has over 10 years work experience in the financial services industry in advisory, asset management and as an economist.
Until his appointment to the ministry, he was the Managing Director of InvestCorp, a financial services firm in Accra, Ghana. He served as a Vice President at Databank where he was Head of Research and a Fixed Income Strategist.