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Moses Aristophanes Kwame Gyasi was educated at Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast, and at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained a B.Sc. (Administration) degree in June 1970. He was admitted into the membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) in 1976.

Mr. Gyasi has had considerable experience in the profession, industry, commerce, academia and civil society institutions. He formally retired as a Senior Lecturer with the University of Ghana Legon in 2012 after 26 years of service. Before that, he worked as an accountant in various positions with many organisations including the Electricity Company of Ghana, Tema Shipyard and Drydock Corporation, Kowus Motors Ltd. and as an auditor with KPMG. For almost eight years he was a Principal Lecturer in accountancy subjects and acting head of Department at Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Nigeria, two of which were spent as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Management and Vocation, one of the four Institutes within the Polytechnic.

Mr. Gyasi has had the opportunity to offer management consultancy services to a number of companies. Apart from his professional assignments, Mr. Gyasi is a prolific writer, and a social critic (a reference made to him by the former President of the nation. Mr. Agyekum Kufuor, for his comments on issues of national interest and importance). He contributes articles in the print media, and for a period of almost twenty years contributed articles on weekly basis first in THE SPECTATOR and then in the DAILY GUIDE. He also takes part in discussions on the electronic media as well as delivers lectures at important forums. He is the author of six books on accounting and one on corruption entitled: “A Voice Against Corruption: Enough is Enough”.

Mr. Gyasi has served as a board member of many organisations including some state bodies like the New Times Corporation, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, National Petroleum Tender Board, GETFund Mfantsipim School and private ones like Research International, Coconut Grove Hotels Ltd. and Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana). He joined the Ghana Integrity Initiative as a Board Member in October 2003 and later become the Board Chair until he retired in December 2019. He has served and continues to serve on various Audit Committees of a number of state organisations.
Currently, Mr. Gyasi serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Energy Commission.
Mr. Kwame Gyasi is married with one daughter.

Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa is a Board Member of the Energy Commission as a representative of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) per section 4 of Act 541.

Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa is a professional Development Planner and an Economist by training and in practice. He had over 31 years of professional policy practice, lecturing and research experience at the international level in Development Planning, Macroeconomics, Public Finance and Project Management as well as highly rated professional consultancy work in Monitoring and Evaluation.

Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa is currently the Director General of NDPC after three years as the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minster for Planning in Ghana. He also serves on several Boards and Councils. He worked as the Senior Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Planning from 2017 to 2019 and played a leading role in the technical team that developed the Coordinated Programme for the President of Ghana (2017-2024) and facilitated its dissemination. Dr Mensah-Abrampa before taking up the home tasks was a Global Policy Adviser for the United Nations Development Programme at its headquarters in New York responsible for Local Development and Urbanization, initiating several development and investment programmes in post-conflict local economies.

He had before that spent five years working as the Deputy Head of Office for East and Southern Africa for the United Nations Capital Development Fund, facilitating private-sector funding of public infrastructure and local economic development in the Africa Region. At home in Ghana, he lectured in Development Planning & Management at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, was a Monitoring and Evaluation Expert at the National Development Planning Commission and a Senior Governance Adviser for Netherlands Development Organisation in Accra.

He is an ardent 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 and many others. He shared his experience as a Guest lecturer with the University of Dortmund in Germany, 1996-1999 and supported scholarly activities in Yale Governance and Local Development Conflict Management Programme, in July 2015; and MIT’s Urban and Regional Planning Programme in August 2015.

He is a scholar and practitioner in Development Planning and Public Finance with a Bachelor's Honours in Development Planning from KNUST, a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Ghana, and a Doctorate in Development Economics and Public Financial Management from the University of Dortmund, Germany. He has to his credit several other certificate programmes in Diplomacy, Poverty Management, and Security & Crises Management.
He is a gazetted traditional leader as the Fotosanfoɔhene of Denkyira Traditional Council with the stool name Nana Dr. Esseim Kwaakontan III.

Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu is the Board Chairman of the Energy Commission. He is also the President of the Presbyterian University, Ghana. Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu is a university administrator who served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2021. Before becoming Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Owusu served as a Professor of Entomology at the University of Ghana's Department of Animal Biology and Conservation Science. He was also the Provost of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana. . He also held the positions of Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science, Chairman of the Volta Basin Research Project (VBRP), and Dean/Ag. Dean of the School of Biological Sciences. He was the Chairman of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) Board from 2017 to 2020.

Professor Owusu was awarded the prestigious Japanese Government Scholarship (MONBUSHO) in October 1989 to pursue his Master of Science degree at Kochi University, Japan. He completed his Masters (Agricultural Chemistry) in 1992 and was awarded another scholarship (MONBUSHO) to pursue a PhD in Entomology. Professor Owusu completed his PhD in 1995 with a gold medal award (for best PhD candidate). Professor Owusu holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA Project Management option) from the University of Ghana Business School. Additionally, he has a Diploma in Educational leadership from Harvard University.

In August 2008, Professor Owusu was significantly decorated as a “LIVING LEGEND” by the People of Kochi Japan for his contribution to Science and the Internationalization of Kochi city.

In June 2016, he was appointed a member of the “Kenjin-Tatsujin” Japan International Advisory Council, which supports the Ashinaga African Leaders Initiative. On November 29, 2017, Prof. Owusu received the highest honour of "rising sun with gold" from the Emperor of Japan (through the Japanese Cabinet) in recognition of his overall contributions to humanity.

He is a devout Christian who is happily married and has three children who are all pursuing careers in different fields of endeavour.

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