REGIONAL MINISTER
HON. SETH KWAME ACHEAMPONG
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DEPUTY REGIONAL MINISTER
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CHIEF DIRECTOR
Mr. John A. Donkor was born on 9th April, 1964. He is a native of Adukrom-Akuapem in the Eastern Region. He speaks five(5) languages-English, Russian, Okere, Twi and Ga. He has two(2) sons.
Mr. John A. Donkor possesses a Master of Science degree in Finance and Banking from the Moldavian State University in the former USSR. Currently, he is a student of the ICAG. He obtained his GCE A’ Level Certificate at the Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School, Legon in 1984 and the GCE O’ Level Certificate at the West Africa Secondary School, Accra in 1982. He has several certificates, some of which are: Certificate in Russian Language from the Moldavian State University; Certificate in Budgeting and Financial Management from GIMPA and Certificate in Governance in Local Government from GIMPA/Danida Fellowship Centre.
Mr. John A. Donkor is currently the Chief Director of the Regional Coordinating Council succeeding Mr. S Donkor. Before this position, he was Regional Budget Officer of the Eastern Regional Co-ordinating Council with a grade of Chief Budget Analyst. He occupied this position from March 2016. Before then, he was the Municipal Budget Officer of the Berekum Municipal Assembly from January, 2014 to February, 2016. He also worked with the Akwapim South District Assembly from September, 2012 to December, 2013 and helped establish the Budget Unit of that Assembly when it was formed in July, 2012. Mr. John A. Donkor was the Municipal Budget Officer of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly from January, 2004 to August, 2012. He started his career as an Assistant Budget Analyst with the then Akuapem North District Assembly, now a Municipal Assembly in November 1994, where he worked until December 2003.
Mr. John A. Donkor was an Activist in “What Do You Know” and “Best Brain” Quiz Programmes from 1984 to 1986. He was the Secretary of NUGS, Kishinev Branch (USSR) from 1989 to 1991. He was the Secretary of the Eastern Region Budget Analysts Welfare Association from 2003 to 2012. He then became the Chairman of the Association from January to December, 2013. Currently, he is a Member-Patron of the Association. Mr. John A. Donkor is a member of the Team that developed the Budget Section of the Public Financial Management (PFM) Templates in Sogakope that is being used for Social Accountability forums by MMDAs in the country.
The hobbies of Mr. John A. Donkor are Jogging, playing Draught, Cards, and Scrabbles, and watching Adventurous movies.
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING OFFICER
PLN Mrs. Audrey Smock Amoah, Ph.D., was born on 14th November 1974 in Sekondi, Western Region. She obtained her GCE Ordinary Level Certificate in Ahantaman Secondary School, Sekondi in Western Region, and her GCE Advanced Level Certificate in Mawuli School, Ho in Volta Region. Audrey has a Ph.D. in Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. She also has a Master of Science Degree in Development Policy and Planning and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Planning also from KNUST. She holds a certificate in Gender and Development from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), a Certificate in Human Rights-Based Approach to Planning and Programming from Danida Fellowship Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Women in Management from GIMPA & Danida Fellowship Centre. Aside from the Planning profession, her specialty includes Gender and Development and Local Economic Development.
Audrey is a Chief Development Planning Officer with vast experience in the area of development planning having worked in the Local Government Service for the past twenty-one years. She started her career in the then Mpohor Wassa East District Assembly from November 2000 and Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Assembly from 2012 in the Western Region. She was posted to the La Dade-kotopon Municipal Assembly in Greater Accra in 2017 and currently works in the Eastern Regional Co-ordinating Council, Koforidua in the Eastern Region.
Due to her display of professional competence and desire to achieve results, she received a National Award on Professionalism in 2018. Audrey has served as a member of the Council of the Institute of Local Government Studies, Board of Governors for Faiseman Secondary School, Panel member for Family Tribunal and Juvenile Court in Tarkwa and the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Anglogold Trust Fund in Tarkwa. Audrey was the Focal Person in Ghana for United Cities and Local Governments Authority (UCLGA)’s Water and Sanitation Hub of Africa. She was also among the Jurors in a Market for all Competition organised by the Department of Architecture, KNUST in 2020. Audrey presently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Sector Workers Employees’ Pension Scheme. She stands for professionalism and loves to learn and impart.
HEAD OF FINANCE
Dr. Alexander Otopah, CA is a practitioner-scholar in public-sector financial management with a proven track record.
He is an alumni of Yaw Duodu Primary, Akropong-Akuapem Methodist Junior High, Okuapeman Senior High, Accra Technical University, University of Cape Coast, GIMPA, Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana, Nobel International Business School and SBS Swiss Business School in Zurich, Switzerland. Alex holds a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration, Masters in Business Research, a second Master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance), a Chartered Accountant, a first-class Bachelor of Commerce, and a Higher National Diploma in Accounting. Further, Alex also possesses a Post Graduate Certificates in Contemporary Management, Public Financial Management, Business Innovation in Volatile Markets, and International Public Sector Accounting Standards.
He joined the CAGD as an accountant and has risen through the ranks to become a Chief Accountant with over twenty years of working experience. Throughout his carrier, Alex has largely been on secondment to the Local Government Service. At the initial stages, Alex worked as the project accountant for donor-funded projects such as World Bank Water and Sanitation, Canadian District Wide Assistance Project, World Bank Community Based Rural Projects, Japan International Co-operation Agency, Action Aid, and others. He is an expert in public sector financial planning and budgeting, finance and accounting, auditing and assurance, taxation, monitoring, and evaluation. Alex has served as District Finance Officer for Bawku West District Assembly, Birim South District Assembly, and also as a Deputy Regional Director, CAGD in the Upper East. He is currently the Head of Finance at the Eastern Regional Co-coordinating Council providing financial and managerial backstopping services to public sector institutions. He chairs the audit committee of Akauapem North Municipal Assembly as a representative of ICAG.
He teaches Institute of Chartered Accountants candidates and also provides technical support to doctoral and master’s degree candidates. He has facilitated financial management workshops in over eighty public sector institutions across Ghana and also consults for a number of firms on public sector financial management. Alex loves watching football and Ghanaian movies. He is a teacher, team player, generous, results-oriented, and a mentor.
REGIONAL INTERNAL AUDITOR
ANTHONY AMATEY HADJOR was born on 26th November 1972 at Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region. He is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA), a member of institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICA) 2021 and Institute of Internal Auditors, Ghana, (IIA) 2013. He holds certification of Forensic Fraud from Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana 2019. He also holds Executive Masters in Business Administration EMBA (Finance Banking) from Paris Graduate School of Management, 2010 and a Bachelor of Art degree from University of Ghana B.A. (Hons.) 1998.
He had his Secondary education at St Martin’s Senior High School at Nsawam Adoagyiri and Basic education at Roman Catholic Primary at Odumase Krobo
ANTHONY AMATEY HADJOR taught at Ghanata Senior High, Dodowa from the year 2000 to 2005. He moved to the Internal Audit Unit of Ghana Education Service at Shai Osodoku District from 2006 to April 2007. He joined the Local Government Service in May 2007 and worked in a number of Municipal and District Assemblies and a Regional Coordination Council.; Birim Central Municipal Assembly 2007 -2012, Akwapim South Municipal Assembly 2012-2014, Weija Gbawe Municipal Assembly 2014-2018, Ga South Municipal Assembly 2018-2019, Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council 2019-2020 and currently with the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council.
He served as a member of Audit Report Implementation Committee (ARIC) of four District Assemblies between 2014 -2016: Kwahu East District Assembly, Abetifi: Ada West District Assembly, Sege: North Tongu District Assembly, Battor,: Kwaebibirim District Assembly, Kade.
He has contributed significantly to management appreciation of internal controls and risk management in the various institutions he had and worked.