Who is Prof Kwesi Botchwey? Cause of Death
Kwesi Botchwey
Who is Prof Kwesi Botchwey? Cause of Death
Professor Kwesi Botchwey is a Ghanaian politician and former finance minister of the Republic of Ghana.
Professor Kwesi Botchwey served as finance minister first during the military era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) from 1982 to 1991 and then in the constitutional period of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from 1992 to 1995.
Professor Kwasi Botchwey is the longest-serving Finance Minister.
Is Prof Kwesi Botchwey dead?
A closed source to Coverghana.com.gh has confirmed that, the former Finance Minister of Ghana Professor Kwesi Botchwey is dead.
Kwesi Botchwey was reported dead on Saturday, 19th November, 2022, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra where he was seeking medical care.
According to sources, Professor Kwesi Botchwey is said to have been receiving medical treatment at the hospital in the last few days.
Professor Kwesi Botchwey Cause of death
Reports available confirmed that, Kwesi Botchwey died after a short illness. He died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra where he was seeking medical care.
He has been receiving medical treatment at the hospital at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for sometimes now.
How old is Prof. Kwesi Botchwey?/ Kwasi Botchwey Age
Prof Kwesi Botchwey was born on 13th September 1944. He died on Saturday, 19th November, 2022. Kwesi Botchwey died at 78 years of age.
READ MORE: Kwesi Botchwey Net Worth, Age, Wife & Children
Kwesi Botchwey Biography/Profile
Prof. Kwesi Botchwey was a Ghanaian former government official and Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
Prof Kwesi Botchwey was Minister for Finance and Economic Planning from 1982 to 1995.
He was a student of University of Ghana; Yale University and University of Michigan.
He served in office alongside Ghana’s longest-serving head of state, the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings.
He served in the military era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) (1982 to 1991) and the constitutional period of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) (1992 to 1995).
Prof. Kwasi Botchwey Education
The late Prof. Kwasi Botchwey is economist and received his secondary school education at the Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School in Ghana.
Prof. Botchwey held an LL.B. from the University of Ghana, LL.M from Yale Law School, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School.
He taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University of Ghana. Other notable previous assignments of Dr Botchwey were advisor to the World Bank on the 1997 World Development Report.
He was among others, a member and Chairman of IMF‘s Group of Independent Experts who conducted the first ever external evaluation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility, an advisor to the UNDP’s UN Special Initiative on Africa and an advisor to the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM).
SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh
