Stephen Amoah

Dr Stephen Amoah is a Ghanaian financial economist and politician born on 27 March 1970 who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Nhyiaeso constituency in the Ashanti Region. A member of the New Patriotic Party who has represented the Kumasi metropolitan constituency since January 2021 and retained his seat in December 2024, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance from mid-2024 until January 2025 following the death of Deputy Finance Minister John Kumah, and sits on the boards of several of Ghana's major state financial and agricultural institutions.

Professional background

Amoah works as a financial economist, a professional formation in the quantitative and analytical dimensions of economic and financial analysis that underpins his work on financial sector governance and public expenditure oversight. His private sector and advisory career in financial economics gave him the professional credentials that supported his board appointments across a range of state and parastatal institutions, including Ghana COCOBOD, the Ghana Enterprises Agency and GCB Bank plc. These board memberships placed him at the intersection of agricultural commodity financing, small business support and commercial banking governance, a broad institutional landscape that has shaped his policy perspectives on the Ghanaian economy.

Parliamentary career and ministerial service

He was first elected Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso in December 2020, winning with 51,531 votes representing 81.71 per cent of valid ballots, one of the dominant individual majorities of that election cycle in the Ashanti Region. He retained the seat in December 2024. President Akufo-Addo appointed him Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry before reassigning him as Deputy Minister of Finance in mid-2024 following the death of John Kumah, who had served as the constituency's MP and as a Deputy Finance Minister before his death in March 2024. Amoah served as Deputy Finance Minister until January 2025. He serves on Parliament's Finance Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee, assignments that align his financial economics expertise with two of Parliament's most globally engaged oversight mandates.

Political Legacy

Dr Stephen Amoah's financial economics expertise, his board service across COCOBOD, Ghana Enterprises Agency and GCB Bank, his Deputy Finance Ministry and his retained Nhyiaeso majority give his parliamentary career a depth of private sector, state enterprise and ministerial financial governance experience rarely combined in a single parliamentary tenure.