Minister for Finance and Economic Planning

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The Minister for Finance and Economic Planning is the Ghanaian government official responsible for the Ministry of Finance of Ghana. The Minister for Finance since January 2025 is Cassiel Ato Forson.[1] Kwesi Botchwey stayed in office the longest (1982 to 1995), first under Jerry Rawlings as Secretary for Finance in the PNDC military government and then as Minister for Finance in the constitutionally elected Rawlings government at the beginning of the Fourth Republic and was in charge of the Economic Recovery Programme under the auspices of the World Bank which oversaw major economic reform in Ghana.

The first Ghanaian to head this ministry is Komla Agbeli Gbedemah who assumed this position in 1954 when the Britain allowed Kwame Nkrumah to form a government prior to gaining full independence in 1957. The Ministry has at various times been designated as Ministry of Finance or as it is currently, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.

Number Minister Took office Left office Government Party
1Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (MP)[2]
(First Ghanaian in this position)		19541957Colonial governmentConvention People's Party
19571961Nkrumah government
2Ferdinand Koblavi Dra Goka (MP)[3]8 May 19611964
3Kwesi Amoako-Atta (MP)[4]19641966
4Akwasi Afrifa[5]
Emmanuel Noi Omaboe[6]		19661969National Liberation CouncilMilitary government
5Joseph Henry Mensah[7] (MP)19691972Busia governmentProgress Party (Ghana)
6Ignatius Kutu Acheampong[8]1972?National Redemption CouncilMilitary government
7Amon Nikoi??
8Robert K. A. Gardiner14 October 1975May 1978Supreme Military Council
9J. L. S. Abbey?1979
19791979Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
10Amon Nikoi19791981Limann governmentPeople's National Party
11George Benneh19811981
12Kwesi Botchweya19821993Provisional National Defence CouncilMilitary government
19931995Rawlings governmentNational Democratic Congress
13Richard Kwame Peprah19952001
14Yaw Osafo-Maafo20012005Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
15Kwadwo Baah Wiredu20052007
16Anthony Akoto Osei20072009
17Kwabena Duffuor20092012Mills governmentNational Democratic Congress
20122013Mahama government
18Seth Terkper20136 January 2017
19Ken Ofori-Atta[9]27 January 2017February 2024Akufo-Addo governmentNew Patriotic Party
20Mohammed Amin Adam[10][11]February 20246 January 2025
21Cassiel Ato Forson (MP)[1]22 January 2025IncumbentMahama 2nd governmentNational Democratic Congress

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