Joseph Yieleh Chireh
Board Chairman, Pharmacy Council Ghana
Joseph Yieleh Chireh (born 8 July 1954) is a Ghanaian pharmacist, lawyer, diplomat and politician. He is the chairman of the governing board of the Pharmacy Council Ghana having been appointed by President John Dramani Mahama in May 2025. He was the board chairman of FBNBank Ghana, a subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria from January 2014 to February 2020. He served as the Member for Parliament for Wa West Constituency in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Parliaments of the 4th Republic of Ghana from January 2005 to January 2021. He also served as a member of the Pan-African Parliament between May 2017 to January 2021.
Chireh was the minister for health from January 2011 to March 2012 and minister for local government and rural development from February 2009 to January 2011 under President John Evans Atta Mills.
President Jerry John Rawlings appointed Chireh to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Algeria with concurrent accreditation to Tunisia, Mauritania and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from July 1997 to March 2001 and minister for the Upper West Region from March 1993 to March 1997. Under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), he served in various roles as a PNDC Secretary at the PNDC Secretariat from May 1985 to January 1993 and PNDC Secretary for the Upper West Region between March 1983 and May 1985.
Early life and education
Chireh was born in the Lassia-Tuolu, a village in Upper West Region of Ghana. He attended the Navrongo Secondary School in the Upper East Region from 1968 to 1975 where obtained both Ordinary and Advanced Level West African Examination Council School certificates.
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