Mr. Alan Kyeremanten

Minister for Trade, Industry & PSI Mr Alan Kyeremanteng has had an extensive and successful professional career in the private and public sector spanning over a period of twenty-four years. He was a senior corporate executive with a subsidiary of Unilever International in Ghana. He also worked for a number of years as a Principal Consultant and Head of Public Systems Management with one of the leading management development institutions in Ghana, the Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI).

He was responsible for establishing the Empretec Program in Ghana (an enterprise development program sponsored by the UNDP and Barclays Bank Ghana Ltd.) in 1990. As Chief Executive, he led in the transformation of Empretec from a small UNDP project into an independent Foundation, which is internationally recognized as a best practice model for private sector development.

In 1998, Mr Kyerematen was appointed by UNDP as Regional Director to establish and manage the Enterprise Africa Regional Program, an Africa-wide regional program for the development and promotion of SMEs, which is UNDP’s flagship program for private sector development in Africa.

Under the umbrella of the Enterprise Africa program, Mr. Kyerematen successfully expanded the Empretec presence in Africa into 11 other countries, besides Ghana and Zimbabwe. The new countries include Botswana, Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa, Cameroun, Senegal, Uganda and Swaziland.

Mr Kyerematen is a graduate in Economics from the University of Ghana, and also holds a law degree from the same university. He was called to the bar in Ghana, and is a practicing attorney–at-law in Ghana. In addition, he is a Hubert Humphrey Fellow of the School of Management at the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., having completed one year management studies under the Fulbright Scholarship program at that institution.

Mr Kyerematen is a member of the Council of Governors of the British Executive Service Overseas (BESO) in the UK and also a Board member of other organizations in Ghana.

In 1994, Ambassador Kyerematen was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the Hundred (100) Global Leaders for the new millennium, alongside Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation), John F. Kennedy Jr., and others.

In April 2003, Ambassador Kyerematen was appointed Minister for Trade, Industry and Presidential Initiatives.