Mr Jake Okanka Obetsebi-Lamptey

Minister for Tourism & Diasporean Relations The Minister for Tourism & Diasporean Relations, Mr Jacob Okanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, was born on February 4, 1946 in Accra. He had his primary education in Accra in the early fifties and travelled to England to further his education.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey's work experience dates back to 1996, when he was a scriptwriter, Commentator and Television and Radio Presenter at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). In 1996, he joined Lintas West African, an advertising firm, as an Accounts Executive and Radio and Television Producer.

He was appointed the Client Service Manager of Lintas in Ghana in 1971, he wrote, co-ordinated and executed Family Planning, Motivation Campaign for the Ghana National Family Planning Programme.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey was appointed the General Manager of Lintas, Ghana Limited in 1974 and thereafter worked on a number of programmes for the company and others in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Kenya.

International Seminars
In 1972, he served as a Resource Person at a seminar on Family Planning at the University of Hawaii, USA.

Between 1984 and 1999, he also worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Futures ­ Group (SOMARC) on workshop divising operation manuals as well as key presentations in a number of countries, including Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Malawi, Cyprus and Cameroon.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey also served as the Plenary Speaker at the World Summit on AIDS, in London, and Second International Symposium on the disease in Yaounde, Cameroon. He is a Past President of the Advertising Association of Ghana.

Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey has several publications to his credit. Some of them are; Using Commercial Resource in Family Planning programmes: The International Experience and The Handbook for AIDS Prevention in Africa™.

He was the National Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party, (NPP) for the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections.