[ 2017-05-11 ]

Eva Mends named as first female Director of Budget
A Chief Economics Officer, Ms. Eva Mends has been
appointed as the Acting Director of Budget at the
Ministry of Finance.

She becomes the first ever female to be appointed
a Director of Budget at the Ministry.

This was contained in a statement by the Finance
Ministry announcing some key appointments to the
Ministry.

Also, Mr. Eugene Asante Ofosuhene has been
appointed as the Acting Controller and Accountant
General.

In addition, Mr. David Klotey Collison, a Chief
Budget Analyst and Mr. Sampson Akligoh, a
Technical Advisor to the Minister of Finance have
also been appointed Director of Public Investment
Division and Financial Sector Division of the
Ministry respectively.

Profile of Eva Mends

Ms. Eva Mends, the Group Head of the Public
Financial Management Reforms, joined the Ministry
as a National Service Person in 1991.

Positions she has held include, Head of The
Americas Desk in 1998, Head of Budget Development
in 2006 and Group Head of Public Financial
Management (PFM) reforms in 2013.

As Group Head, she was instrumental in leading
major reforms that include gender responsive
budgeting, Programme Based Budgeting and lately
the development of the new Public Financial
Management Act.

She is an alumni of University of Ghana, where she
studied Political Science with Economics and also
has an Executive Masters in Public Administration
from GIMPA.

She has undertaken short courses at the Harvard
and Duke Universities.

She takes over from Mr. Sampson Asare Fianko, who
reverts back to his former position as a Deputy
Controller and Accountant General.

Mr. Eugene Asante Ofosuhene

As a former Deputy Controller and Accountant
General, he was responsible for management of the
Government Treasury.

He acted creditably on several occasions as the
Controller and Accountant General in the absence
of the substantive Controller.

He is a Public Finance Expert and has consulted
for the World Bank on the assignment,
‘Strengthening the role of Public Private
Partnerships in the Local Government
Assemblies’.

Mr. Ofosuhene is a Fellow of The Association of
Chartered Certified Accountants (U.K. & Ireland)
F.C.C.A and Institute of Chartered Accountants
(ICA) Ghana.

He has a Master’s degree in Business
Administration (Finance option) from the
University of Ghana.

He is also a graduate of the London School of
Accountancy.

He takes over from Mr. Seidu Kotomah, Controller
and Accountant General, who has been reassigned to
the Ministry of Finance.

Mr. David Klotey Collison

Mr. David Klotey Collison joined the Civil Service
as an Assistant Budget Analyst at the Ministry of
Finance in December, 1995.

Until his recent appointment as Director in charge
of Public Investment, he was the Group Head,
Budget Development and was responsible for
Compensations Management and Coordination of the
National Budget Development Process from February,
2015.

Mr. Collison graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in
Agriculture, majoring in Agricultural Economics
from the University of Ghana in 1993 and also has
a Master’s in Business Administration (Finance
option) from the same university in 2001.

Mr. Sampson Akligoh


Mr. Sampson Akligoh, has over 10 years’ working
experience in the financial services industry
working in advisory, asset management and as an
economist.

Until his appointment to the Ministry, he was the
Managing Director of InvestCorp, a financial
services firm in Accra, Ghana.

He served as a Vice President at Databank where he
was Head of Research and a Fixed Income
Strategist.

He also worked at SIC Financial Services Limited
and with ADC African Development Corporation AG in
Frankfurt which was acquired by Atlas Mara in
2014.

Mr. Akligoh also served as an Adjunct Lecturer in
International Economics at Ashesi University
College in 2014.

He holds a BA in Economics and Law (First Class
Honours) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science & Technology in Ghana, and a Master’s
degree in Economic Policy and Corporate Strategy
from the Maastricht School of Management in the
Netherlands.

Source - citibsinessnews.com

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