Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs is the Ghana government official who is responsible for overseeing the country's foreign policy and international diplomacy. The minister is usually one of the most senior members of Cabinet.

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The Minister for Foreign Affairs since January 2017 has been Honorable Shirley Ayorkor Botchway. The ministry is at present combined with other portfolios to form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration under the government of Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party.

List of Ghanaian Foreign Ministers
Number Minister Took office Left office Government Party
1Kwame Nkrumah (MP)19571958Nkrumah governmentConvention Peoples' Party
2Kojo Botsio (MP)19581959
3Ako Adjei (MP)19591960
4Imoru Egala (MP)[1]19601961
5Ako Adjei (MP)19611962
6Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (MP)19621963
7Kojo Botsio (MP)19631965
8Alex Quaison-Sackey (MP)196524 February 1966
9Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah19661967National Liberation CouncilMilitary government
10John Willie Kofi Harlley19671968
11Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)19691969Busia governmentProgress Party
12Victor Owusu (MP)19691969
13Patrick Dankwa Anin (MP)19691969
14Victor Owusu (MP)19691971
15William Ofori Atta (MP)197113 January 1972
16Major General Nathan Apea Aferi19721972National Redemption CouncilMilitary government
17Lt. Colonel Kwame R.M. Baah19721975
18Colonel Roger Felli19754 June 1979Supreme Military Council
19Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi[2]197924 September 1979Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
20Dr. Isaac K. Chinebuah (MP)197931 December 1981Limann governmentPeoples National Party
21Obed Asamoah19827 January 1993Provisional National Defence CouncilMilitary government
7 January 19931997Rawlings governmentNational Democratic Congress
22Kwamena Ahwoi(acting)[1]19971997
23James Victor Gbeho19977 January 2001
24Hackman Owusu-Agyeman (MP)20012003Kufuor governmentNew Patriotic Party
25Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (MP)2003July 2007
26Akwasi Osei-Adjei[3] (MP)20077 January 2009
27Muhammad Mumuni200924 July 2012Mills governmentNational Democratic Congress
24 July 20127 January 2013Mahama government
28Hanna Tetteh (MP)[4]30 January 20136 January 2017
29Shirley Ayorkor Botchway (MP)[5]28 January 2017IncumbentAkufo-Addo governmentNew Patriotic Party

See also

Notes
  1. "Foreign ministers E-K". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. Mrs. Gloria Amon Nikoi was one of several senior civil servants who acted as ministers of state during the short rule of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council between 4 June 1979 and 24 September 1979.
  3. "Full list of Ministers and Regional Ministers out". General News of Tuesday, 31 July 2007. Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
  4. "Parliament approves first batch of Ministers". General news. Ghana Home Page. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. "Nana Addo swears in 12 ministers". Ghanaweb. Ghanaweb. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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