Speaker
Dr Moses Okumu
Assistant Professor
UNC School of Social Work
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Biography
Dr. Moses Okumu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Social Work, Uganda Christian University. His research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions in marginalized communities. Experienced with using collaborative and community-based participatory methods, he has worked with communities in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, and Canada to address local needs in ways that utilize and further strengthen existing networks. He is currently working on several projects that examine the efficacy of economic security and multilevel social resilience interventions and digital delivery strategies for improving the well-being and health outcomes of facing multiple forms of adversity, including poverty, forced displacement, and HIV.
Dr John Mulindwa Kitayimbwa
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Uganda Christian University
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Dr David Ansong
Associate Professor
School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC USA
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Biography
Dr. David Ansong is an Associate Professor and the Wallace Kuralt Early Career Distinguished Scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. He is also Faculty Fellow at the Global Social Development Innovations (GSDI) center and a Faculty Director for the Global Assets Building program at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St Louis. He has expertise in initiating, adapting, and implementing intervention research in resource-constrained countries (Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nepal, and Ecuador). From 2010 through 2015, Dr. Ansong played a key role in the YouthSave initiative designing and testing the impact of youth savings accounts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal. Dr. Ansong is also leading a program of research in the United States to test innovative interventions to bolster the financial capability of relatives who provide permanent care for children in foster care to improve child safety and well-being.
Rev. Mrs. Patricia Sappor
President
Chartered Institute of Bankers-Ghana
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Mr David Flomo
Lecturer
University Of Regina
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Biography
Dr. David Ansong is an Associate Professor and the Wallace Kuralt Early Career Distinguished Scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. He is also Faculty Fellow at the Global Social Development Innovations (GSDI) center and a Faculty Director for the Global Assets Building program at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St Louis. He has expertise in initiating, adapting, and implementing intervention research in resource-constrained countries (Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nepal, and Ecuador). From 2010 through 2015, Dr. Ansong played a key role in the YouthSave initiative designing and testing the impact of youth savings accounts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Nepal. Dr. Ansong is also leading a program of research in the United States to test innovative interventions to bolster the financial
Abdelkader Benbrahim
Coordinator
Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) Partnership Secretariat, African Development Bank Group
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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
Vice President: Republic of Ghana
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Biography
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana since January 2017. He chairs the Government of Ghana’s Economic Management Team which has responsibility for guiding and rebuilding the Ghanaian economy. He is at the forefront of a broad, inclusive development strategy in Ghana involving the leveraging of digitised government services in transforming the delivery of public services. His efforts have seen the development of a supportive technology ecosystem resulting for example, in the rapid growth of a Fintech industry in Ghana. Dr Bawumia holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics (Buckingham University, UK), a Master of Science Degree in Development Economics (Oxford University, UK) and a Ph.D. in Economics (Simon Fraser University, Canada). He has held academic positions as Assistant Professor of Economics (Baylor University, USA), Visiting Scholar (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Visiting Senior Research Associate (Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, UK). He has also served as Visiting Professor of Economic Governance (Central University, Ghana). As an Economist and a Chartered Banker, Dr Bawumia has had a prestigious career which includes serving as the Deputy Governor of Ghana’s Central Bank from 2006 to 2008 and the Resident Representative of the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe in 2011. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana. He has authored several journal articles and has numerous publications to his credit, including “Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform in Africa, Ghana’s Experience”.
Dr Ernest Addison
Governor
Bank of Ghana
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Biography
Dr Ernest Kwamina Addison was appointed Governor of Bank of Ghana by the President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in April 2017. Addison spent over 25 years working in the broader areas of public service, with a focus on Economic Development, Monetary Policy Formulation and Implementation, and Macroeconomic Surveillance. With his deep knowledge and experience in financial markets, foreign exchange market and sound macro-economic, Governor Addison has demonstrated strong leadership, management and policy skills, and inspired confidence and credibility both within the Bank and throughout the financial sector. Under his leadership, the Bank of Ghana has achieved several successes in the pursuit of macroeconomic and financial stability, following the implementation of prudent monetary policies to bring inflation down to single digits, and widespread policy and regulatory reforms including major recapitalization efforts over the past three years. This has cleaned up the financial sector, strengthened governance and the supervisory frameworks, and repositioned the sector to undertake its primary role of financial intermediation for the growth and development of the country. These successes have won him and the Bank many international and domestic awards including the best central bank governor of the year in the Sub-Saharan Africa by the GlobalMarkets and the best central bank of the year by the central banking awards. In addition to his Governorship role, Dr. Addison served as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the IMF and World Bank at the 2020 Annual meetings of the World Bank and the IMF in Washington DC. He is currently a Co-chair, of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a Regional Consultative Group for Sub-Saharan Africa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ghana International Bank, and a member of the Ghana Cocoa Board, among others. Addison holds a degree in Economics from the University of Ghana, a Master’s degree in economics and politics from Cambridge University and a PhD with specialisation in monetary economics and economic development from McGill University.