University of Ghana - Noted Alumni

Noted Alumni

• Patrick Kwateng Acheampong – Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service (2005–2009)
• George Kingsley Acquah – Chief Justice of Ghana (2003 – 2007).
• Dr. Paul Kingsley Acquah - former Governor of the Bank of Ghana
• Peter Ala Adjetey – former speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (2001–2005).
• Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, – Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Ghana
• Her Ladyship Mrs. Justice Mabel Agyemang née Banful (also Yamoa) - expert Appeal Court judge for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Since being called to the Ghanaian Bar in 1987 and the Ghanaian Bench soon after, she has served in the judiciaries of the governments of Ghana, The Gambia and Swaziland. She began working for the Commonwealth Secretariat in 2004, first being sent to The Gambia, where she spent four years as a High Court judge, and then to Swaziland in a similar capacity. She is currently on secondment to The Gambia as an Appeal Court judge. One of her recent notable judgments was on the right to free education in Swaziland.
• Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – former Foreign minister and former Attorney-General of Ghana.
• Dr. K. Y. Amoako – former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa.
• Dr. Joyce R. Aryee - former Secretary, CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Mines and Executive Director, Salt and Light Ministries.
• Prof. John Atta Mills – former Law professor and Vice-President of Ghana (1997–2001), President of Ghana (2009 to 2012).
• George Ayittey - economist, author, and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC. He is a professor at American University and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
• Anna Bossman - former acting commissioner of the CHRAJ (Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice).
• Dr. Kwesi Botchwey – former law lecturer and finance minister of Ghana (1982–1995).
• Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas – Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States.
• Joseph Coleman de Graft (2 April 1924–1 November 1978) - prominent Ghanaian writer, playwright and dramatist, who was appointed the first director of the Ghana Drama Studio in 1962.
• Kwesi Dickson – former President of Methodist Church Ghana, Emeritus Professor, author and theologian.
• Kwabena Dufuor – Finance Minister and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
• Komla Dumor - currently a television news presenter for the international news channel BBC World, presenting BBC World News and Africa Business Report. Prior to joining the BBC he worked for JOY FM in Accra, Ghana, and was the 2003 winner of Journalist of the Year award given by the Ghana Journalist Association. Dumor is the only West African news reader on BBC World News.
• Prof. Charles Odamtten Easmon - first Ghanaian Surgeon and First Dean of University of Ghana Medical School.
• Nana Effah-Apenteng was the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations between May 2000 and 2007.
• Dr. Patience Essah - Masters and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor of History at Auburn University, in Auburn, AL, and more specifically African Studies. She is the author of A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865.
• Akin Euba - Nigerian composer, musicologist and pianist. He was former Professor and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Lagos, and has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria. He was Head of Music at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation for five years. Since December 1986 he has been a research scholar and artist in residence at IWALEWA House, the African Studies center of the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He currently serves as Andrew Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London (founded in 1989), and currently serves on the Board of Management of the Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College (CIMACC).
• Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng – cardiothoracic surgeon and Chief Executive of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He was first black African to perform heart transplant and he established the National Cardiothoracic Centre.
• Ken Kanda - a diplomat, he is the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations.
• Dr. F. I. D Konotey-Ahulu – leading world authority on sickle-cell anaemia
• Prof. Judge Mrs. Akua Kuenyehia – Vice-President, International Criminal Court (2003-Date)
• Emeritus Professor E. Laing
• Lauretta Vivian Lamptey - Ghanaian Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice. She is a lawyer and an investment banker.
• John Dramani Mahama – Vice-President of Ghana (2009 to 2012) and President of Ghana (2012 to present)
• Vicki Miles-LaGrange (born 1953) - Chief U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African-American female elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
• Dr. Gobind Nankani - a Ghanaian national, he is Executive Director of International Growth Center, London. He is also Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the President of Ghana, periodically visiting Ghana from London. He has been Chief Economist, South Asia, and has also served, on leave from the World Bank, as an economic adviser to the government of Ghana. He holds a PhD and MA degrees from Harvard University and a BSc degree from the University of Ghana, Legon. He was recently honoured with the Order of the Volta (2008).
• Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu née Banful - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 22 August 2007 announced her appointment as his Deputy Special Representative (Rule of Law) for Liberia. Mrs. Mensa-Bonsu has been a Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, and until recently the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana. Beginning her professional career in Ghana Prisons Service as a Legal Advisor to the Director of Prisons, she has experience in all the sectors of Rule of Law either as adviser, scholar or activist.
• Prof. Tawiah Modibo Ocran – Judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2004–2008).
• David Ofori-Adjei - elected to the Council of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology of the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in 2000.
• Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye – former Minister of Communication (2005–2009) and Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya (2005 to present).
• Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes - Speaker of Parliament of Ghana (7 January 2005-6 January 2009).
• Hafiz Shabazz - master drummer and director of the World Music Percussion Ensemble, is an ethnomusicologist, percussionist, performer, and lecturer at Dartmouth College, USA. He is an initiated member of the Ancestral Shrine of the Ashanti Nation in Ghana, has authored articles for the Black Music Research Journal, and was a consultant with John Chernoff in the writing of African Rhythms and African Sensibilities.
• Tsatsu Tsikata – former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation and Law lecturer at the University of Ghana.
• Georgina Theodora Wood – first female Chief Justice of Ghana (since 2007).
• Mr. Kwesi Amissah-Arthur - Vice-President of Ghana (2012 to present)