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AMBASSADOR ALEX NTIM ABANKWA
MEMBER

Ambassador Alex Abankwa, a career diplomat, was born on 3rd April, 1933. He was educated at the University College of Ghana, Legon - Accra (1956-1959), University of West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago (1967) and John Hopkins University, Maryland - USA (1968), specialising in International Relations and Diplomacy. 

Ambassador Abankwa has held a number of positions at the national and international levels, and has also been a member of Ghana's delegations to meetings such as the 'Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting' in Kingston, Jamaica. He was among Ghana's delegations to the 31st and 32nd United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1977 ad 1978.  Between December 1990 and November 1997, Ambassador Abankwa represented the country at several conferences, workshops, seminars and negotiations including the negotiations, organised by the European Foundations and the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group of Nations on 'Co-operation between Europe and the ACP Countries'.

Ambassador Abankwa has served in Ghana's Foreign Service in different capacities rising through the ranks from Foreign Service Officer to Ambassador. Among the several countries where he has served are India, the former USSR, Jamaica, USA, Ethiopia and Canada.

Other positions he has held included Counsellor and Head of Chancery in Addis Ababa; Ethiopia (1964-1965), and Counsellor in Charge of Education and Welfare of Ghanaians in the USA (1965-1970), taking charge as Head of Chancery in 1969. Ambassador Abankwa was also the Director of the Government Machinery Pay Research Unit of the Prime Minister's Office (1970-1972). He assumed the positions of Director in charge of administration at the Research Department,Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (1981-1984), and Director of State Protocol (1984-1987).

From December 1990 to November 1997, he was Ghana's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdoms of Belgium, the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, as well as Head of Mission to the European Communities and the Secretariat of the ACP Group of Nations. He was Ghana's High Commissioner to Canada from August 1976 to November 1981. 

Ambassador Abankwa was a member of the ECOWAS Council of Elders from January 2000 to December 2002. He is now a consultant and is consulting for the Ministry of Finance, Ghana, on the "Study of the Impact of the West African Economic and Monetary Union on Ghana".

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