President Mahama appoints Professor Lord Mensah as Head of Local Government Service

President John Mahama has appointed Professor Lord Mensah, a renowned fiscal economist, arsenic the caller Head of the Local Government Service.

Professor Mensah, who is simply a distinguished Professor of Financial Economics astatine the University of Ghana Business School, brings an exceptional blend of world extent and real-world acquisition to the role.

His assignment is expected to fortify fiscal decentralisation and heighten the fiscal absorption capableness of section authorities institutions nationwide.

He holds a PhD successful Applied Economics-Finance from the University of Antwerp successful Belgium, an MSc successful Financial Mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern successful Germany, and a Bachelor’s grade successful Mathematics from KNUST,

Professor Lord Mensah has besides built a coagulated world instauration that has informed his contributions to fiscal argumentation and improvement sermon crossed Africa. He is wide recognised for his research, with publications indexed successful Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.

He has delivered adept presentations astatine starring planetary conferences including the World Finance Conference successful Portugal, the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, and events crossed the U.S., South Africa, Vietnam, France, and Singapore.

Beyond academia, Professor Mensah has consulted for large institutions specified arsenic the Central Bank of Nigeria, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Bank of Ghana.

He besides serves arsenic Executive Director of the African Centre for Development Finance and is simply a respected dependable successful Ghana’s economical argumentation space, regularly featured successful nationalist media and firm circles.

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