President Akufo-Addo has inaugurated a 10-member board for the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, GIPC.

The new board chaired by Kwasi Abeasi, will help GIPC initiate and support measures that will enhance the investment climate in Ghana for both Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian enterprises.

The board will also assist in formulating investment promotion policies and plans, promotional incentives and marketing strategies to attract foreign and local investments in advanced technology industries.

Other members of the board include Chief Executive Officer of the GIPC, Yofi Grant; first Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Maxwell Opoku- Afairi and Acting Director –General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Grace A. Bediako.

The rest are, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah; Deputy Minister of Finance, Kwaku Agyeman Kwarteng; CEO of the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), Nana Osei-Bonsu; Alex Apau Dadey, member, Madam Nora Bannerman-Abbott, member and Dame Dr Mrs Cecilia A. Kwofie, member.

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) under the GIPC Act, 2013 (Act 865) is to encourage and promote investments in Ghana.