 THE
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
aged 56, is the eldest of the four children of the late
Mr Justice Edward Akufo-Addo, former Chief Justice and
President of the Second Republic of Ghana.
He was educated at the Lancing College, Sussex, England,
and the University of Ghana, Legon, and graduated in 1967
with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Economics degree.
Nana Akufo Addo trained as a lawyer in England and was
called to the English Bar in July 1971 as well as the
Ghanaian Bar in July 1975.
He had a stint with the Coudert Freres, a major US law
firm, as an associate counsel, at its Paris office in
France between 1971 and 1975.
The Attorney-General also worked as a junior partner
at the chambers of U.V. Campbell, and in 1979 co-founded,
with Dr Edmund Prempeh, the law firm, Akufo-Addo, Prempeh
and Company in Accra.
Nana Akufo-Addo has served on the boards and committees
of a number of political, legal and social organisations
in the country. He wa Other The rest are 1996 and 2000
NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Abuakwa Constituency;
Chairperson, NPP Internal Affairs Committee; Chairperson,
NPP Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee; and Secretary,
NPP Political Committee.
During the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic ,
Nana Addo wa The Attorney-General is also the Chairperson
of DHL, Ghana Limited; Chairperson, Kinesec Communications
Company Limited, publishers of the st and theh .e Chairperson
of the Standing Committee on Subsidiary Legislation (
1997-2000); Ranking Minority Member on Parliaments are,
Member, Legal Committee of the GBA; Member, General Council
of the GBA (1996); Founder and first Chairperson , Ghana
Committee on Human and Peoples the General Secretary of
the People
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