Ken Ofori-Atta was born on 7 November 1958 in Kibi, a town in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He is the son of the economist and politician Jones Ofori Atta. Ofori-Atta attended See more

Finance
Ofori-Atta co-founded Databank Financial Services with Keli Gadzekpo and Togbe Afede XIV in 1990; he served as its executive … See more

Ofori-Atta was President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nominee to assess the health of the economy during the transition period after the 2016 elections.
In May 2017, Akufo-Addo named Ken Ofori-Atta as part of nineteen ministers who would form See more

On 25 October 2022, 80 out of the 137 New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers dared President Nana Akufo-Addo to sack Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister citing his inability to properly handle the Ghanaian economy. Akufo-Addo sacked Ofori-Atta's deputy over … See more

• Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Chair (2018–2024)
• African Development Bank (AfDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2017–2024)
• ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development … See more

Ofori-Atta is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute. He was adjudged as the 2nd most respected C.E.O in Ghana. Ken is a Donaldson Fellow at Yale University in 2010 and a recipient of the John Jay Award from Columbia University in 2011. He is a co-founder of the … See more

Marriage and children
He is married to Professor Angela Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta, an associate professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ghana Medical School and former deputy minister for Manpower Development and … See more