Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong re-elected Chairman of PIAC
Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong has been re-elected chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC).
His appointment follows the re-constitution of the Committee on the back of the expiration of the tenure of some members of the Committee.
New members were sworn-in together with some members who had their tenure renewed by their nominating institutions.
Inaugurating the new Board, Deputy Minister for Finance, Mr John Kumah, reiterated government’s commitment to supporting PIAC to carry out its mandate.
He urged the members to consider their appointment as a call to public service, and to fulfil the mandate of PIAC to ensure that citizens benefitted from the country’s petroleum revenue.
Accepting his re-election, he expressed gratitude to the Committee for the confidence reposed in him and pledged his commitment to PIAC and service of the citizenry.
Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong also urged government to take action on PIAC’s recommendations to ensure effective and efficient use of petroleum revenues.
The new members of the Board are Mrs Clara Beeri Kasser-Tee who replaced Professor Akosua Darkwah, as the representative of the Independent Policy Research Think Tanks and Odeefuo Amoakwa Buadu VIII, representing the National House of Chiefs, and replacing Ogyeahoho Yaw Gyebi II.
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The Members who were re-nominated are Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong, representing the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG), Mr Nasir Alfa Mohammed of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and Mr Bashiru Abdul-Razak of the Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI).
Profile of Prof. Kwame Adom-Frimpong
Prof. Adom-Frimpong is currently the Managing Director of Mainstream Reinsurance Company. He previously worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers as Audit Supervisor, SSNIT as Head of Audit, and at ABC Brewery Company as Senior Cost and Management Accountant.
As a graduate of the University of Wales, Bangor, UK (MBA) and the University of London, he also obtained a Doctorate degree in Business Administration (DBA-Finance option) from the Faculty of Professional Studies, Arcadia University, USA, in 2001 and again had PhD in Economics Finance from the same University in 2004.
Prof. Adom-Frimpong is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and the immediate past President of the ICAG (2018- 2020). He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB) and Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (FCIIG). He is also a Barrister-at-Law, and a member of the Ghana Bar Association.