Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo

THE Foreign Minister, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, aged 60, is the eldest of the four children of the late Mr Justice Edward Akufo-Addo, former Chief Justice and President of the Second Republic of Ghana.

He was educated at the Lancing College, Sussex, England, and the University of Ghana, Legon, and graduated in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Economics degree.

Nana Akufo Addo trained as a lawyer in England and was called to the English Bar in July 1971 as well as the Ghanaian Bar in July 1975.

He had a stint with the Coudert Freres, a major US law firm, as an associate counsel, at its Paris office in France between 1971 and 1975.

The Foreign Minister also worked as a junior partner at the chambers of U.V. Campbell, and in 1979 co-founded, with Dr Edmund Prempeh, the law firm, Akufo-Addo, Prempeh and Company in Accra.

Nana Akufo-Addo has served on the boards and committees of a number of political, legal and social organisations in the country. He is also the Chairperson of DHL, Ghana Limited; Chairperson, Kinesec Communications Company Limited, publishers of the Statesman.