Mr. K.Y. AMOAKO (GB member 2009-2012)
President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) -http://www.acetforafrica.org/
K. Y. Amoako is the founder and president of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET). Amoako began his career in 1974 at the World Bank where he served as the World Bank’s Division Chief for Country Programs in the Africa Region and also Division Chief for Sector Programs in the Latin America and Caribbean Region, as well as Director of the Education and Social Policy Department. From 1995-2005, Amoako served as Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the rank of Under Secretary General of the UN. In 2006, he was a Distinguished African Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC. Amoako has worked with leading development experts and political leaders on high-level international commissions and task forces that addressed the development challenges of Africa and many of today’s central global issues. Among many others, he chaired the UN Commission for HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa and was a member of the Commission for Africa as well the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health and the Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was recently a member of the High-Level Trade Experts Group. Amoako holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Ghana, and a PhD in Economics from University of California, Berkeley. Read more about the organization Amoako heads, the African Center for Economic Transformation.