Alan John Kyerematen
Ghanaian politician
Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen (born 3 October 1955) is a Ghanaian politician, a corporate executive, and a former member of the New Patriotic Party. He was Ghana's Minister for Trade and Industry from 2017 to 2023. He was also Ghana's Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2003 and later as Minister of Trade and Industry, Private Sector Development (PSD), and Presidential Special Initiatives (PSI) during the John Kufuor's administration. Kyerematen has served as a trade advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he coordinated the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC).
In September 2023, Alan John kwadwo Kyerematen parted ways from the current party New Patriotic Party after losing the party's flagbearership race. He then proceeded to form his own political party named Movement for Change, an Independent political movement that will contest the 2024 general elections with him as Presidential Candidate.
Early life
Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen was born on Monday, 3 October 1955 to Alexander Atta Yaw Kyerematen, a social anthropologist from Pataasee, Kumasi and Victoria Kyerematen (née Welsing) from Elmina and Ejisu. He was named after an archbishop in the Church of England, Alan John Knight, who was his father's mentor and the headmaster of the all-boys Anglican boarding school, Adisadel College in Cape Coast in the 1930s. Alexander A. Y. Kyerematen, Alan's father was then a student at the school and later, a boys prefect in his final year.
In 1951, his father was the founder and first director of the Centre for National Culture located in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region and later on, he was appointed the mayor of Kumasi and then Commissioner for local government between 1966 and 1969 during the regime of the National Liberation Council.
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