President John Mahama is expected to name his vice president shortly. He is currently chairing a cabinet meeting involving ministers of state as well as senior party officials. Snippets of information picked up by Myjoyonline.com indicate, former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchway may well be appointed as the vice president. It is unconfirmed, even though others including Trade Minister Hanna Tetteh, Agric Minister Kwasi Ahwoi and Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor have all been named as possible candidates. Profile of Dr. Kwesi Botchwey Kwesi Botchwey is a Ghanaian former government official and Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. Botchwey was Ghana's Minister of Finance from 1982 to 1995. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings to assist in stabilizing Ghana's collapsed economy. Botchwey holds an LL.B. from the University of Ghana, a 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. Other Notable Previous Assignments • Advisor to the World Bank on the 1997 World Development Report • Member and Chairman of IMF's Group of Independent Experts who conducted the first ever external evaluation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility • Advisor to the UNDP's UN Special Initiative on Africa • Advisor to the European Centre for Development Policy and Management (ECDPM) Publications "Transforming the Periphery: A study of the struggle of social forces in Ghana for democracy and national sovereignty", United Nations publication, 1981 (ISBN 92-808-0309-3; ISSN 0379-5772) DSDRSCA-83/UNUO-309 "Obstacles to Centralized Reform: An African Perspective" in Deepening Structural Reform in Africa, Lessons from East Asia, ed. Laura Wallace, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, 1996. Implementing Debt Relief for the HIPCs,” (co-author), Center for International Development, Harvard (1999). “Wither the Partnership Agenda in Development Cooperation: A Country perspective,” 4th Conference on Evaluation and Development, World Bank (2001) “The New Partnership for Africa’s Economic Development: Internal and External Visions,” NEPAD: Internal and External Visions and Influences (2003); Current and Past Projects Member & Convener Team of academics from Yale, Oxford, and the Free University of Amsterdam that conducted and has just finished the first External evaluation at the request of the Executive Board of the IMF, of the Fund’s Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF). Member Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons for the Facilitation of the Signing of the Uruguay Round of Gatt Negotiations. Member OECD group of high-level experts for the review of the OECD study on "Globalization and Linkages to 2020: Challenges and Opportunities for OECD countries (1996). Member Commonwealth Expert Group on Good Governance and the Elimination of Corruption in Economic Management Profile of Mr. Kwesi Awhoi Kwesi Ahwoi (born 17 November 1946) is the Minister for Food and Agriculture in Ghana. Education Kwesi Ahwoi attended Prempeh College at Kumasi where he obtained his GCE Ordinary Level in 1965. His sixth form education was at Saint Augustine’s College at Cape Coast where he passed the GCE Advanced Level in 1967. His undergraduate education was at the University of Cape Coast where he obtained the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, Geography and Education. Between 1980 and 1981, he studied for the Post Graduate Certificates in Budgeting and Financial Management and from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. During 1985 and 1986, he studied for the Postgraduate Certificate in Planning and Resource Management at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States. Career Ahwoi has held various positions in government and business. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre during the Rawlings era. Following the December 2008 presidential election, he was appointed Minister for Food and Agriculture by President John Atta Mills. Family Kwesi Ahwoi is married with seven children. Kwamena Ahwoi and Ato Ahwoi, both brothers of Kwesi served in the Rawlings government Profile of Hanna Tetteh Hanna Tetteh (born 31 May 1967) is a Ghanaian barrister and politician. She is the current Minister for Trade and Industry of Ghana. She also served as a Member of Parliament between 2001 and 2005. Early life and education Hanna Tetteh was born in Szeged, Hungary. Her secondary education was at the Wesley Girls High School at Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana from 1978 to 1985. Between 1986 and 1989, she studied law at the University of Ghana where she obtained the Bachelor of Law (LL.B) degree. She then attended the Ghana Law School, becoming a Barrister-at-Law in 1992. Career Hanna Tetteh worked as a Legal Officer with the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) from 1992 to 1993. Over the next year, she worked in private legal practice at the Ansa-Asare and Company Hencil Chambers in Accra, Ghana. In 1995, she served as a legal officer with the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in Ghana. Later that same year, she joined the Ghana Agro Food Company, a company involved with tuna canning, wheat milling, feed milling, and fishmeal production and veterinary drugs at Tema[1] in the Greater Accra Region where she held several positions until she went into politics in 2000. She returned to the same company in 2005 where she worked until 2009. Politics Hanna Tetteh won the Awutu Senya constituency seat in the December 2000 parliamentary election and served for one term as National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament on the opposition benches. She did not contest her seat in the next election. In 2008, she returned into politics, becoming the communications director of John Atta Mills' campaign during the December 2008 presidential elections. She got robbed at gun point during the campaign.[2] In February 2009, following his appointment as the new President of Ghana, John Atta Mills appointed her Minister of Trade and Industry. Other activities Hanna Tetteh is a director of Accra Hearts of Oak SC. Profile of Dr. Kwabena Dufuor Kwabena Duffuor is the Finance Minister of Ghana. He has also served as the Governor of the Bank of Ghana in the past. Early life and education Kwabena Duffuor had his secondary education at the Prempeh College at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He proceeded to the University of Ghana where he graduated in 1968 with a B. Sc. degree in Economics. His prostgraduate studies were at the Syracuse University in New York, United States where he obtained a Masters in Business Administration degree in Finance and Banking and Master of Arts in Economics in 1975. He was also awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Finance in 1979 at the same university. Career He 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, Duffuor worked full time as a banker. He also 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. He was appointed an External Examiner in Finance from 1985 at the University. In 1995, he became Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. In July 1997, Duffuor was appointed by Jerry Rawlings, President of Ghana in consultation with the Council of State as the Governor of the Bank of Ghana. He held this position till his four years term ended in September 2001. He was nominated Ghana's man of the year by the readers of The Independent newspaper. Politics Kwabena Duffuor is a member of the Convention People's Party.[3] He was however appointed Finance Minister in the National Democratic Congress government led by John Atta Mills, President of Ghana in February 2009 after winning the 2008 Ghanaian presidential elections. Hobbies Dr. Duffuor loves playing golf in his leisure time.