Amon Nikoi

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Amon Nikoi (born January 19, 1930 , La, Accra , Ghana; † September 5, 2002 , Ghana) was a leading politician, diplomat, economist and banker in Ghana . Nikoi was married to Gloria Amon Nikoi and has three children.

education

Nikoi graduated from Amherst College in the United States with a degree in economics and received his bachelor's degree in the subject in 1953. Between 1953 and 1955 he was a student at Harvard University and received an honorary master’s degree in economics from Amherst University in 1963.

Career

Kikoi worked in the Ghana Foreign Service between 1957 and 1960 and was transferred to the United Nations as a representative of Ghana at the Ghanaian Embassy in Washington, DC , USA . Between 1960 and 1966, Nikoi was the Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund . Between 1966 and 1968 he held the post of Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund .

After the 1966 military coup in Ghana, Nikoi became Senior Principal Secretary of the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance on January 6, 1969 . He held this position until February 1973 under the heads of state Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa , Edward Akufo-Addo and Ignatius Kutu Acheampong . In February 1973, Nikoi became governor and chairman of the National Bank of Ghana , chairman of the Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC) and chairman of the Grains Warehousing Company. With these positions he united the three most important economic offices of the country in his person. The post of the National Bank gave Nikoi considerable influence on the financial and economic policy of Ghana.

In 1977 he retired from the post of Governor of the Bank of Ghana under the leadership of the National Redemption Council (NRC) under General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong . In the Third Republic under the government of the People's National Party (PNP) under President Hilla Limann , Nikoi was Minister for Finance and Economic Planning between 1979 and 1981 .

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SURNAME Nikoi, Amon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian politician, finance minister and IMF chairman
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH La, Accra
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2002
Place of death Accra