{"id":283515,"date":"2017-01-10T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283515"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:00:23","slug":"ken-ofori-atta-nominated-as-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283515","title":{"rendered":"Ken Ofori Atta nominated as Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Ken Ofori Atta as Finance Minister designate.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Z565JRwkkqaEs115X1Lo6VxyANLOPqrf&#8221;]He will replace Seth Terkper who served under the immediate past administration.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Ofori Atta is Co-Founder of Databank Financial Services Limited and served as its Executive Chairman from 1990 to February 14, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing his appointment at the Flagstaff House, Nana Akufo Addo described Mr. Ofori Atta as someone who has the &#8220;capacity and insight to move modern economies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofori-Atta has rich experience in finance and administration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_283545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283545\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-283545\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ken-ofori-atta.jpeg\" alt=\"Ken Ofori Atta with President Akufo Addo at the announcement at the Flagstaff House\" width=\"600\" height=\"554\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Ofori Atta with President Akufo Addo at the announcement at the Flagstaff House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He has worked with Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley, on debt and equity issues and financing for a variety of industries.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Co-Founder of the African Leadership Initiative of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.<\/p>\n<p>He serves as the Chairman of both Trust Bank Limited as well as Family Ventures and Offices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Ken Ofori Atta as Finance Minister designate. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Z565JRwkkqaEs115X1Lo6VxyANLOPqrf&#8221;]He will replace Seth Terkper who served under the immediate past administration. Ken Ofori Atta is Co-Founder of Databank Financial Services Limited and served as its Executive Chairman from 1990 to February 14, 2012. Announcing his appointment at the Flagstaff House, Nana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}