Alan John Kyerematen: 10 Facts you probably didn’t know about the New Minister For Trade and Industry

Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen popularly called Alan Cash is a Ghanaian politician, corporate executive, diplomat and an international public servant specialising in global trade issues.

Here are 10 Facts you probably didn’t know about the current Minister for Trade and Industry

1. He is a Hubert Humphrey Fellow of the School of Management at the University of Minnesota, U.S., having completed one year management studies under the Fulbright Fellowship program at that institution.
2. He was listed by the TIME magazine as one of the Hundred (100) Global Leaders for the New Millennium, alongside Bill Gates, John F. Kennedy Jr., and others.
3. He served as a trade advisor at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
4. He has been a leading stalwart and key strategist of the NPP since its inception in 1992.
5. He was named after an Anglican Archbishop from England, The Most Reverend Alan John Knight CMG DD who was the Headmaster of Adisadel College and a mentor to his father.
6. He was a senior corporate executive with a subsidiary of Unilever International in Ghana.
7. He was appointed Ghana’s Ambassador to the U.S when the N.P.P came in to office in 2001.
8. He is married to Patricia Christabel Kyerematen who is the daughter of Justice Kingsley Nyinah, Ghana’s Electoral Commissioner during the 1979 presidential election.
9. He was a senior corporate executive with a subsidiary of Unilever International in Ghana.
10. Alan Kyerematen was appointed by the UNDP as the first Regional Director of ENTERPRISE AFRICA.

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