Alan Kyerematen

NAME: Alan Kyeremanten

DESCENT: Ghanaian

POSITION: Minister of Trade

COMPANY: Ghana

INDUSTRY: Trade

AWARDS: -In 1994, Kyerematen was listed by the TIME Magazine as one of the Hundred (100) Global Leaders for the New Millennium, alongside Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation), John F. Kennedy Jr., and others.[18]

EDUCATION: University of Minnesota, Ghana School of Law, University of Ghana

BACKGROUND: Mr Kyerematen is a Ghanaian politician. A corporate executive, a diplomat and an international public servant specializing in global trade issues, Kyerematen was Ambassador to the United States and later Minister of Trade, Industry, Private Sector Development (PSD) and the Presidential Special Initiatives (PSI), under the President Kufuor-led NPP government. Kyerematen served as a trade advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he coordinated the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC).