Edward Boateng

In June 2017, President Nana Akuffo-Addo named Edward Boateng as Ghana's ambassador to China with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Mongolia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. He was among twenty-two other distinguished Ghanaians who were named to head various Ghanaian diplomatic missions in the world.^[5][6]

He worked at Turner Broadcasting on the strategic product development and international sales team. He facilitated the company's entry into Africa and went on to be a senior executive member of the company's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) unit, in London and later in South Africa.^[7]

Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, Ambassador Boateng was primarily recognized as a media mogul and the founder of Pan African media and entertainment conglomerate Global Media Alliance (GMA), which he set up in South Africa in the year 1998 and later moved to Ghana in 2001. The media company is one of Ghana's most revered media, communication, and events management firms with diversified radio stations: Happy FM and YFM; a television station: eTV Ghana, a media education center: e-Academy, and multiple cinema houses under its wing.^[8]