Thomas Nyarko Ampem

Thomas Nyarko Ampem is a Ghanaian economist, finance professional and politician born on 14 February 1978 in Anum in the Eastern Region, who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Asuogyaman constituency and as Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning in the government of President John Mahama. A member of the National Democratic Congress who has represented the constituency since January 2017 and been appointed to a senior executive finance role in 2025, he combines a transatlantic academic formation in economics and finance with multi-term parliamentary experience in one of the Eastern Region's Volta Lake-bordering constituencies.

Education

Ampem earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Geography from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a dual social science degree that gave him both the quantitative tools of economic analysis and the spatial-analytical perspective of geography. He subsequently completed a Master of Science degree in Finance from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, a respected American public research university whose finance graduate programme equipped him with the technical financial modelling, investment analysis and corporate finance skills demanded by professional finance careers and public finance management.

Parliamentary career and ministerial appointment

He has served as Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman since January 2017, representing the constituency through three successive parliamentary cycles. In December 2024, he retained the seat with 26,085 votes from a majority of 1,135 votes. In March 2025, President Mahama appointed him Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, a portfolio that directly leverages his finance MSc and his parliamentary experience on economic governance. Asuogyaman is a constituency in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal District of the Eastern Region, a constituency that borders the Volta Lake and whose communities depend on fishing, farming and the economic activities of a Krobo cultural area that has one of Ghana's most distinctive bead-making and cultural traditions.

Political Legacy

Thomas Nyarko Ampem's dual KNUST economics-geography degree, his Virginia Commonwealth finance MSc and his appointment as Deputy Finance Minister give his parliamentary career a coherent academic-to-policy trajectory in economic management that positions him as one of the NDC's younger finance experts from the Eastern Region in the Ninth Parliament.