africa

Conference-Participant Contributors’
Biographical Information
Paul Acquah
Former Governor of the Bank of Ghana
Paul Acquah was Governor of the Bank of Ghana from 2001 to 2009 and in 2005
he won the Emerging Markets award for Africa Central Bank Governor of the Year.
He began his career as an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
and served the IMF in various capacities, becoming Deputy Director of the Africa
Department from 1998 to 2001. In 2009, he was part of a team formed to stabilize
the debt of the Tema Oil Refinery and manage its crude oil supply; he was joined by
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Kwabena Duffuor, Chief of Staff John
Martey Newman, and Minister of Energy Joe Oteng-Adjei. Dr. Acquah received a
BSc in Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon; a Master’s Degree from
Yale University; and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Christopher Adam
Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford
Christopher Adam’s current research spans three main themes: the macroeconomics
of Africa, growth and structural change in low-income countries, and the economics
and political economy of aid. His work uses methods of quantitative macroeconomics
including stochastic and deterministic general equilibrium techniques. He is a
visiting professor at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement
International, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, and an occasional visiting
scholar at the International Monetary Fund. From 2003-05 he served as external
Macroeconomic Adviser to the Policy Division at the UK Department for International
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