Dr. Gockel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University Of Ghana, Legon, Ghana and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

He instructs numerous courses at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels including Monetary Theory and Practice, and Economic Policy Analysis, Design and Evaluation.  He also supervises doctoral and master’s level dissertations, and is an external examiner at University of Cape Coast.

He is a Visiting Lecturer in the MPhil Programme for Anglophone Africa under the Auspices of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi and a member of the PhD Academic Committee of the AERC.

Dr. Gockel has participated in instructional programmes of the Ghana Stock Exchange, and has presented papers at several national and international conferences.

He has several publications to his credit in both local and international journals.

Dr. Gockel has considerable experience in economic policy analysis and economic reform measures.

He has been a consultant to many local and international institutions including the World Bank, USAID, ILO, UNDP, UNECA, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, National Development Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and West African Monetary Institute.

Mr. Simon Dornoo was appointed Managing Director of Ghana Commercial Bank Ltd. (GCB) effective March 04, 2010.  He joined GCB from Barclays Bank of Ghana Ltd. where he worked in various Senior Management positions from January 1999 to March 2010.

He worked locally with Barclays Bank of Ghana as Finance Director and Country Tresurer as well as with Barclays PLC, U.K. being the first African to be appointed as Finance Director for Barclays Africa and the Indian Ocean with oversight responsibility for ten countries.

Simon began his carrier with KPMG in 1985 where he trained and later worked as an Audit Senior until 1990. 

As one of the pioneers of CAL Bank in 1990 he was the first Financial Controller and he subsequently held other senior level positions in the Bank until December 1998. 

Simon has served on various Boards, mainly in the financial services sector.

He is a chartered accountant by profession.  He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana and has an MBA degree from Manchester Business School, United Kingdom.

Mr. Prempeh is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana.  He holds an honours degree in Economics from the Lancaster University, in England.

He has a rich working experience in finance and business management acquired over the years from the United Kingdom and Ghana.  He has worked with reputable companies like SCOA, TOR, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and KPMG.

He is currently a Corporate and Financial Consultant and serves on the Boards of Densu Industries Ltd., SDC Finance and Leasing Company Ltd., TV3 Network Ltd. and Union Management Services Ltd.

Mr. Kwetey has an Economics background and worked for a number of years in the investment banking industry as a Financial Analyst, Funds Manager and a Stockbroker.  He also lectured capital market courses on the Ghana Stock Exchange for a number of years.

He is currently the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Planning.  As part of his responsibilities, Hon. Kwetey has direct supervisory responsibility over the following:  Economic Planning, Financial Services sector and Oil and Gas issues.

He is also in charge of the Public Procurement Authority, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ghana Stock Exchange, Ghana Statistical Service, Cocoa Sector, Customs Excise and Preventive Service and the Department of National Lotteries.

He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also has a Diplome Superieur DU Francais Des Affairs from the Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Paris.

Mr. Kwetey at various times worked as a Financial Analyst and Stockbroker at the Strategic African Securities and Investment Advisor and Funds Manager at the CDH Financial Holdings Ltd. from 1998 to 2002.

Mrs. Charlotte Amah Osei

Mrs. Osei has an LLB Hons from the University Of Ghana and was admitted to the Ghana Bar in 1994.  She holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M) from Queen’s University, Canada and a Masters in Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South Africa. She has significant experience in several facets of Law with particular specialization in Corporate/Business Law, Banking, Investment and Employment Law.

In the past 15 years, she has gained a wealth of experience as General Counsel & Company Secretary for financial institutions and international corporate establishments, advising on compliance and regulatory issues, corporate financing and restructuring, negotiating transactions and human resource management issues.   She consults on a variety of areas and provides support services for several Ghanaian companies, foreigner investors and international development agencies in Ghana.

Mrs. Adelaide Benneh was born on 19th October 1943.  She had her secondary education at Aburi Girls Secondary School from 1957 to 1963 where she was appointed Senior prefect.  She also obtained ‘O’ and ‘A’ level Certificates there.

She was subsequently admitted to the University of Ghana and obtained a BA(Hons) Degree in French with Spanish.

She pursued a post graduate course in Management at the University of Manchester UK and was awarded MSc Degree in Management Sciences in 1987.

She was employed at Bank of Ghana in 1968 and held a number of appointments including Director and Head of Human Resources Department and Adviser to the Governor of Bank of Ghana.

Her publications include:

•  ‘Human Resource Development at Bank of Ghana’ Published by    World Bank 1998.
•  ‘Human Resource Management and Women In Financial Sector’ Published in an Edited Book 'Experiences In Capacity Building of Ghanaian Women ‘Asempa Publisher, Christian Council of Ghana – 2001

She became the Principal of the National Banking College from 2001 – 2008.  She is also the Nkosuohene of her hometown, Wirenkyiren Amanfrom in the Eastern Region.

Mrs. Benneh is married with six children.

Mr. Peprah has over 30 years of experience in the Telecoms/ICT industry.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Bsc E&EE), from The Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, UK and an MBA in Operations Research and Marketing, from Texas Christian University (TCU), Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

Mr. Peprah worked for Texas instruments, (TI) in Dallas Texas for some fifteen (15) years, starting as a Design Engineer with the Semiconductor Division. He held several key positions culminating in his position as Applications Engineering Manager, during which time he managed several Digital Logic Design projects at TI and was a member of the team that introduced the world famous Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chip that has become an integral part of most telecom and computing systems.

Since returning to Ghana in 1995 Mr. Peprah was involved in the establishment of the first Data Communications company that used the X.25 protocol (DATATEL), as Director for Operations and Marketing, to provide Wide Area Networking (WAN) services to several Banking, Financial and Oil Marketing companies of Ghana.

In 1998 he established Computing Networks and Systems Integration (CNSI) Limited, an Engineering Services company that provides Networking and Process Automation solutions to corporate clients in the Refinery, Power Generation and Manufacturing sectors of the Ghanaian economy.  CNSI holds the local agencies for Honeywell Industrial Automation and Liquid Automation Systems (LAS) of South Africa.

Since 2002 to date, Mr. Peprah has been the Director for Regulations and Licensing (now Regulatory Administration) Division of  the National Communications Authority (NCA).  He has contributed immensely to the liberalization and rapid growth of the ICT/Telecoms market in Ghana, which now boasts of close to 55% penetration in total communications access lines (fixed and mobile), with several of the world class operators represented.

He also has oversight responsibility for the Frequency Management  Division of the NCA.

Mr. Peprah has extensive experience through active participation in the International Telecommunications Union – Telecom sector (ITU-T) system, and currently is part of the experts’ group working on the ’ITU mark’ project, after guiding its successful acceptance at the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA-08) in October 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mr. Peprah was born in Kumasi on 27th June, 1951 and is married with four (4) children.

His hobbies include golfing, reading, travelling  and offering voluntary services to the underprivileged in the community wherever he finds himself.

He is a Past President of the Tema LIONS club.

Lauretta Lamptey is an investment banker and specialist in African capital markets and corporate finance. She was Head of Corporate Finance at Cal Merchant Bank and prior to that was Head of the Capital Markets Group at Ecobank Ghana Ltd.

Ms. Lamptey was also formerly Legal & Corporate Finance Advisor at Loita Capital Partners International, a pan-African investment banking group based in Johannesburg.

As a consultant she has provided legal, financial and investment advice to the Government of Ghana on transactions in the mining, natural resources and energy sectors.

In South Africa she served as a transaction adviser in the setting up of the second national telecommunications operator, and as a consultant on a review of development finance institutions in South Africa undertaken by the National Treasury.

Ms. Lamptey has served on the boards of the Securities Discount Company (SDC) and Gliksten W. A. as well as being a founder member of the board of the Ghana Stock Exchange. She holds L.L.B. and B.L. degrees from the University of Ghana and the Ghana Law School respectively, and an L.L.M. in International Business Law from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) of the University of London.

Mr. Elliot Gordor is a seasoned business executive with over twenty-five years experience.

He is also the Managing Director of Gelloq Company (GH) limited, a major player in Ghana’s haulage and logistic industry with subsidiaries in Togo and the United States of America (USA), Concepts Export Ltd, a logistics company and a director of Conway & Sons LLC, USA and the Tema Development Corporation.

Mr. Gordor is a product of the University of Ghana and the University of Mississippi with specialization in Business Administration.