Ebenezer Akuete
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8 December 1935
Ebenezer Amatei Akuete | |
|---|---|
| Ghana Ambassador to the United States of America | |
| In office 15 January 1982 – 9 December 1982 | |
| President | Jerry John Rawlings |
| Preceded by | Joseph Kingsley Baffour-Senkyire |
| Succeeded by | Eric Kwamina Otoo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ebenezer Amatei Akuete 8 December 1935 |
| Education | Accra Academy |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | |
Ebenezer Amatei Akuete (born 8 December 1935) is a Ghanaian diplomat and economic consultant. He served as Ghana's Ambassador to the United States of America from January 1982 to December 1982.
Akuete was born on 8 December 1935. He had his early education at Osu Presbyterian Boarding School, Salem where he completed in 1951.[1] In 1952, he won a Director of Education scholarship to study at the Accra Academy and he graduated in 1955.[2][3] From 1958 to 1961, he studied at the University of Ghana on a Ghana Government Scholarship.[2][3] There, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics.[2][3] He later enrolled at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration to pursue a post-graduate diploma in public administration which he obtained in 1962.[2][3] In 1968, Akuete was a Fulbright scholar at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University where he was awarded his Master of Arts degree in international relations in 1970.[1][2][3]
Career
Akuete entered the Ghana Foreign Service in September 1961.[3] He served as chargé d'affaires of the Ghanaian permanent mission to the United Nations based in Havana, Cuba.[1][2][4] He was responsible for Ghana's diplomatic relations with Cuba.[5] He was later made counsellor and head of chancery of the Ghana Embassy to Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.[1][2] He served as minister-counsellor of the Ghanaian Embassy in France with concurrent accreditation to UNESCO and Spain from 1972 to 1974, and from 1974 to 1976, he was Minister-Counsellor of the Ghana Embassy in West Germany, Bonn.[2][1] In 1976, he was appointed superintendent director of the Africa Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[2] He served in that capacity until 2 September 1978 when he was appointed deputy chief of missions for the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, D.C.[2][6] He succeeded Moses Kwasi Agyeman who was then minister-counsellor of the embassy. He became Ghana's ambassador to the United States of America on 15 January 1982, and served in this capacity until 9 December 1982 serving in this capacity as chargé d'affaires.[7][8][9] He was succeeded by Eric Kwamina Otoo.[10] Akuete became the principal secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 1983.[1][3]
From 1970 to 1972, he worked as a part-time lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.[3] In 1983, he set-up and managed Bethel Consultants Ltd., an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C. that offered services in management support and economic development.[3] In 1990, he joined AMEX International, Inc., a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.[1][3] He was responsible for the firm's public policy and macro-economic analysis.[3] He also oversaw all of the firm's projects outside the United States of America as director and manager.[3] He worked with the firm from 1990 to 2004.[3]