Victor Selormey
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8 December 1946
Victor Selormey | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning | |
| In office January 1993 – January 2001 | |
| President | Jerry John Rawlings |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Victor Lawrence Kwashie Selormey 8 December 1946 |
| Died | 18 April 2005 (aged 58) |
| Party | National Democratic Congress |
| Relations | Kokui Selormey (daughter) |
| Education | St. Augustine's College |
| Alma mater | University of Ghana University of Wales |
| Occupation | Economist |
Victor Lawrence Kwashie Selormey (8 December 1946 –18 April 2005) was a Ghanaian economist and politician. He was a member of the National Democratic Congress and served as deputy Minister of Finance during the Jerry John Rawlings government.[1][2][3]
Victor Selormey was an Ewe[4] and was born on 8 December 1946 as the fourth of seven children to Michael Etsevia Selormey and Florence Naa Lamile Selormey.[2][3] He began his early education at the St Joseph's Catholic School at Adabraka, Accra and continued at the St Augustine's College at Cape Coast for his secondary school education.[3] He attended the University of Ghana where he completed in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.[2][3] He also underwent a postgraduate course in Applied Statistics at the University of Ghana and completed in 1971.[3] He later furthered his education at the University of Wales, UK on a scholarship completing with a master's degree in Development Economics in 1978.[3] He enrolled in a doctorate programme at the London School of Economics but had to abandon it due to financial constraints.[2][3]
Career
Selormey worked with UNESCO in Paris for a short period and later joined the Ghana Civil Service as a graduate trainee in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in 1971.[3] In the late 1970s, he took on a teaching appointment as an Economics tutor at Stowe Public School in Buckingham and at the Luton Polytechnic.[3] In 1989, he returned to Ghana to work at the Ghana State Enterprises Commission but later quit to move into private practice and as a result of a business partnership opportunity, set up RABSHOLD, a property development cum property finance company.[3]