THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, H.E ALHAJI DR. BAWUMIA

H.E DR. ALHAJI BAWUMIA

Born into a large family, H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was the twelfth (12th) born of his father’s 18 children and the second of his mother’s five (5) children. He attended the Sakasaka Primary school in Tamale, and gained admission to Tamale Secondary School in 1975. After graduating from Tamale Secondary School, he went to the United Kingdom where he studied banking and obtained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (ACIB). He was President of the Ghana United Nations Students’ Association (GUNSA) for 1981. He took a First Class Honors Degree in Economics at Buckingham University in 1987.

He then obtained a master's degree in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1995. His areas of specialization include Macroeconomics, International Economics, Development Economics and Monetary Policy. He has numerous publications.

From 1988 to 1990, he worked as a lecturer in Monetary Economics, and International Finance at the Emile Woolf College of Accountancy in London, England. He also served as an economist at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, USA. Between 1996 and 2000, he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA, where he also received the Young Researcher Award in 1998. He was listed in "Who is Who Among America’s Teachers' in 1999.

H.E Dr. Alhaji Bawumia returned to Ghana in 2000 to work as an economist at the Bank of Ghana. He rose from Senior Economist to Head of Department, and subsequently as Special Assistant to the Governor of the Bank. President John Agyekum Kufuor appointed Dr. Bawumia as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana in June 2006.

He later resigned from the Bank of Ghana and became the running mate to the New Patriotic Party candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections in Ghana. The NPP increased its share of the vote compared to 2004 in all the three Northern Regions, in both the first and second round in 2008. He helped the NPP win some constituencies in the three (3) Northern Regions. 

He is the current vice president of Ghana under the able leadership of H.E Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, the president of the Republic of Ghana. Their NPP government has performed well since they were sworn in January 2017 and it’s evident on the implementation of their flagship programs like the Free Shs, 1 District 1 Factory, Planting for food and jobs, 1 District 1 Dam,  The reduction of unemployment using the NABCO, Forestry Commission Jobs and YEA and many other more..