ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama has chosen Johnson Asiamah as the West African country’s next central bank governor, pending approval by the Council of State, the presidency said on Friday.
The current governor, Ernest Addison, is due to retire from the bank at the end of March and will go on leave from Feb. 3.
Asiamah previously served as a second deputy governor of the central bank between 2016 and 2017, the president’s office said in a statement, adding that he had extensive experience in monetary policy and had worked at the Bank of Ghana for over 23 years.
(Reporting by Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie; Writing by Anait Miridzhanian; Editing by Alexander Winning)
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