Mr. John Awuah

Mr. Awuah is the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Association of Banks.

As a banking executive and thought leader, he was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Merchant Bank. Prior to joining UMB, Mr. John Awuah was the Chief Finance Officer and Director of Finance of GCB Bank Limited. He joined GCB from Ecobank Capital where he was the Group Chief Finance Officer and exercised leadership over the Finance Functions of Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

He has had senior management experience with Barclays Bank of Ghana, United Bank for Africa Ghana Ltd. (UBA Ghana Ltd.) and Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Ltd. with industry exposure from Tractor & Equipment (now Mantrac Ghana) and Western Castings Ltd. in various capacities.

Mr. Awuah is a known subject matter expert on financial controls and governance in Ghana and has had many years of progressively responsible work experience in areas including Financial Control, Regulatory Reporting, Credit Control, Performance Management, Taxation, Market Risk Monitoring, Financial Accounting, Business Partnering, Business Analytics, Operational Risk and Corporate Strategy.

He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana). He holds Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) with first class honors and MBA (with merit) from the Oxford Institute of International Finance – Oxford Brookes University (UK).

He has served and still serves on various boards, including the Boards of Development Finance & Holdings Ltd, Prairie Volta Ltd. Oxford & Beaumont Solicitors, Radiance Pharmacy Limited, Codlogics Incorporated, J100 Coders and NCR Ghana Limited.

He shares a passion for nurturing and grooming young professionals.