Ghana Festival: Ambassador to the U.S. to Speak

It’s now official. The Ambassador of Ghana to the United States, Mr. Alan Kyerematen, will deliver the keynote address before the 2002 Ghana Business Conference at the Ghana Village begins on Friday, July 5th.

Yaw Owusu and Nii Bannerman met the Ambassador on June 7th for a special one-hour session on the Ghana Festival and the upcoming inauguration of the Ghana Embassy’s proposed Ghana Skills Bank. Owusu and Bannerman left the Ambassador’s office impressed with his commitment to building a bridge between Ghanaians at home and abroad, and tapping Ghanaian human resources in the United States to help develop the country.

Also coming:

MEDIA
FRANCIS AKOTO, Ghanaweb Chief Executive Officer
MATILDA ASANTE, Broadcaster & Deputy Editor, JOY FM, Accra, Ghana
SONNY VANDERPUYE, Managing Director, The New Ghanaian, Washington, DC

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ALAN KYEREMATEN, Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States, Washington, DC
KOFI LOMOTEY, PhD, President, Fort Valley State University, Fort, Valley, Georgia

PANEL SESSION ON BUSINESS
SAMMY BONSU, PhD, Chairman, GCG Investments Inc., Greensboro, North Carolina
YAW OWUSU, GCG Founder, Columbia Business School, New York, New York
JUDITH AIDOO, President, Capital Alliance Company, Accra, Ghana
JOHN SARPONG, Founder, Africast, Old Greenwich, Connecticut

FINANCIAL SERVICES
CLIFFORD MPARE, Fmr. Chief Investment Officer, Sloan Financial Group, N. Carolina
KWABENA SABBY, Asst. Vice President, First Union National Bank, North Carolina

LAW, DEMOCRACY AND THE ECONOMY
KOFI ELLISON, PhD, Writer and Scholar on African Affairs, Washington, DC
BERNADETTE ATUAHENE, JD, Yale/Harvard University Kennedy School, Boston
JERMAINE NKRUMAH, President, Africa Group, Houston, Texas
KWAME A. BOATENG, PhD, University of West Virginia, Buckhannon
KWAMENA PANFORD, PhD, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

HEALTH
AKWASI AMPONSAH, MD MPH, Preventive Medicine, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Ms. BRENYA TWUMASI, JD, Counselor, Mental Health, Silver Spring, Maryland
KWAME ASENSO, MSN CFNP CS, President, Health Talk Inc., Burke, Virginia
KWAME ASAMOA, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta

EDUCATION
NANCY JACUBOWYC, President, Global Youth Empowerment, Carteret, New Jersey
KOFI LOMOTEY, PhD, President, Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia
OSEI KOFI DARKWA, PhD, President, GhaClad, Chicago, Illinois

AGRICULTURE
ROBERT LARTEY, United States Department of Agriculture, Great Falls, Montana
Dr. ERIC GRANT, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC

TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
Examining untapped tech-related business opportunities in West Africa
AMA FORDJOUR, Raytheon Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
PATRICIA KYEI, IBM Corporation, Fishkill, New York
KOFI BOATENG, Dell Computer Corporation, Austin, Texas

The Ghana Festival weekend is an occasion to: (1) celebrate the Ghanaian culture (2) network with Ghanaian professionals and students and exchange ideas on Ghanaian development issues (3) promote Ghanaian businesses.

For more information, please write to yo73@columbia.edu or call 301-307-0081.

http://www.ghanacybergroup.com/ghanafest.htm