Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong

Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong is a Ghanaian administrator and politician born on 8 January 1958 in Mampong in the Ashanti Region, who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Mampong constituency. A member of the New Patriotic Party who has represented Mampong since 2016 and was re-elected in 2024, he served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration during the Akufo-Addo administration and is the Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Professional background

Ampratwum-Sarpong spent a substantial part of his professional career in the United Kingdom, where he worked in divisional service management roles in local government. He was employed by the London Borough of Hackney from 1991 to 2002, gaining more than a decade of public service management experience in one of London's inner-city boroughs, a role that gave him exposure to complex urban service delivery, community engagement and public administration in a multicultural British local government environment. He subsequently worked at Hanover in Hackney Limited from 2002 to 2005, extending his UK professional experience before returning to Ghana to pursue his political ambitions in Mampong, the constituency town that is the capital of the Mampong Municipal District and the seat of the Asantehene's territorial sub-chief the Mamponghene, giving the constituency its particular historical significance within the Ashanti Region.

Parliamentary career

He was first elected Member of Parliament for Mampong in the 2016 general election and retained the seat in 2020 and 2024. During the Akufo-Addo administration, he served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, giving him executive responsibility for aspects of Ghana's bilateral relationships and the management of regional diplomacy within the ECOWAS framework. He is the Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, a role that continues his engagement with the diplomatic and international relations dimensions of Ghana's parliamentary oversight work.

Political Legacy

Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong's British public sector management experience, three consecutive parliamentary terms in Mampong and his deputy ministerial service in foreign affairs give his career a distinctive combination of UK-acquired administrative skills and Ghanaian diplomatic engagement from a constituency with deep historical significance within the Ashanti kingdom.