- Kwame Pianim
Kwame Pianim is a celebrated
Ghana ian business economist and investment consultant.He is married to Dutch woman
Cornelia Pianim . With her he has sonElkin Kwesi Pianim ( born 1970), aVassar College trained corporate financer.After ten years as a political prisoner he made a 1996 bid to run for the presidency of Ghana. Switching gears he found success as a businessman in
Accra .Political career
His attempts to contest for the 1996 presidential elections in Ghana on the ticket of the centre-right
New Patriotic Party were scuttled when the Supreme Court ruled to uphold a controversial law preventing individuals convicted of treasonous acts against the republic from holding public office, even if such acts were committed during periods of unconstitutional rule. Following the Court's decision, he resigned from the to focus on private activities within the realm of developmental economics. [cite web
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As an economist, his philosophy is multi-dimensional, but a consistent theme has been the essential incompatibility between the economic agenda of poor nations, or what ought to be their economic agenda, and the priorities of the
Bretton Woods system .Recent Acitivities
He currently heads the Public Utility Regulation Council (PURC) of Ghana, a high-level commission tasked with the responsibility of determining the price-levels of utilities.
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