Board

Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa (PhD)

Nana Dr. Esseim Kwaakontan III, the Fotosanfuᴐhene (Minister of Finance) of Denkyira Traditional Area is also known in private life as Dr. Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa. He was appointed the Board Chairman for CEDECOM in March 2018. He currently works as the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister for Planning in Ghana. He was a member of the technical team that developed the Coordinated Programme of the President of Ghana (2017-2024) and currently facilitating its dissemination. Dr. Mensah-Abrampa, prior to taking up the home task was a Senior Policy Adviser for the United Nations Development Programme headquarters at New York responsible for Local Development and Urbanization portfolio and initiated several economic development and investment programmes in post-conflict and recovery countries. He had before that spent five years working as the Deputy Head of Office for Eastern and Southern Africa for UN Capital Development Fund facilitating private sector funding for public infrastructure and local economic development in the Africa Region. At home in Ghana, he worked as a lecturer/researcher in Development Planning & Project Management at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a Monitoring and Evaluation Expert for the Ghana Poverty Reduction Project under the National Development Planning Commission, and as a Senior Governance Adviser for Netherlands Development Organisation in Accra.

He is an ardent economic development planning and public-private-partnership expert and has undertaken advisory and consultancy assignments for key development organisations including the World Bank, EU, DfID, GIZ, AfDB, RIC and many others. He shared his experience as a guest lecturer with University of Dortmund in Germany, 1996-1999 and supported scholarly activities in Yale University School of Governance’s Conflict Programme, July 2015; and MIT’s Urban and Regional Planning Programme, August 2015. He is also a member of the National Population Council and currently serves as a technical member of several national development initiatives.

He is a scholar and practitioner in Development Planning and Public Finance with a Bachelors in Planning from KNUST, a Masters in Public Administration from University of Ghana, and a Doctorate in Development Economics and Public Financial Management from University of Dortmund Germany.

He is a strong believer that Central Region, the premier region, must be the development pacesetter for Ghana. He is always exceptionally proud to indicate that he was an Assembly member for the Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira District Assembly until he took up the UN appointment.

Okatakyi (Dr) Amenfi VII

Okatakyi (Dr) Amenfi VII who is known in private life as Dr S. E. Edusah was enstooled as the Omanhen of Asebu Traditional Area in the Central Region on October 28, 2000. Okatakyi served as the Vice-President of the Central Region House of Chiefs from 2009 to 2016.

He has been a member of National House of Chiefs since 2012. He is currently a member of the Governing Body of the National Development Planning Commission as a Commissioner and Representative of Central Region.

Okatakyi holds a PhD degree in Development Studies from the University of Bradford, UK. Other qualifications he holds include Postgraduate Diploma - Professional Capacity Building for Research and Development (Value Chain), ICRA, Wageningen, the Netherlands and Certificate – Planning and Appraisal of Industrial Investment from Development and Project Planning Centre, University of Bradford, UK.

Okatakyi Dr Amanfi VII is currently the Director of Bureau of Integrated Rural Development (BIRD) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). His areas of specialisation are Small and Medium Scale Industries, Project Planning, Natural Resource management, Land management, conflict resolution and Chieftaincy.

Dr. Mrs Henrietta Abane

Dr. Mrs. Henrietta Abane, a Senior Lecturer and a Social Development expert at the University of Cape Coast. She was appointed the a member of the governing board Central Region Development Commission in March 2018.
Dr. Mrs. Henrietta Abane is a highly motivated professional teacher, with over 19 years of teaching experience in both lower and higher educational institutions of learning.

Born on 24th January, 1961 in Cape Coast, Dr. Mrs. Abane started her educational journey at Winneba and completed her G.C.E ‘O’ and ‘A’ Level certificates at Mfantsiman Girls’ Secondary School, Saltpond, in 1978 and 1980 respectively.
She also holds a Diploma in Education and a B.A (Hons) in the Social Sciences from the University of Cape Coast. Her zeal for higher academic laurels drove her to pursue higher academic degrees. She consequently earned her MPhil (Sociology) and PhD (Development Studies) from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom respectively.
As a professional teacher, Dr. Mrs. Henrietta Abane, started her teaching career at the St. Augustine’s College where she taught Geography. In that capacity, she prepared students for the WAEC GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level Examinations.
Between 1996 and 2001, she was in charge of public education in the Cape Coast Municipality. Specifically, her duty was to sensitize the public (formal sector workers, community members and basic schools) on the contents of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, parliamentary deliberations and the Value Added Tax at the National Commission for Civic Education.
She joined the Sociology Department of the University of Cape Coast in 2001 and rose through the ranks from a lecturer to head of Sociology and Anthropology Department between 2011 and 2015.

Dr. Mrs. Henrietta Abane has served on various Boards. She served as an Academic Board representative on the Board for the Centre for African and International Studies. She has also served as a Liaison Officer of the Davidson College (USA) Summer Programme of the Department, Member of Examination Malpractices Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Academic Board representative from the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Faculty representative on the Board of the College of Distance Education at the University of Cape Coast. She is currently the council chairperson of the Takoradi Technical University