Hon. Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen popularly known as “Alan Cash” has had a distinguished and successful professional career in both the private and public sectors in Ghana and abroad, spanning a period of 30 years. He was a senior corporate executive with UAC Ghana Ltd, a subsidiary of Unilever International, and worked for a number of years as a Principal Consultant and Head of Public Systems Management at the Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI).
His impressive track record, as the founding Chief Executive of EMPRETEC Ghana, includes leading the transformation of the institute from a small UNDP project with a staff of three into an independent Foundation with a staff strength of 70, supported by over 100 private consultants in Ghana.
Hon. Kyerematen implemented projects funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), UNDP, World Bank and the European Union. During the period, he brought 180 senior British executives to Ghana as volunteers to advise and support small and medium enterprises. This is the largest ever deployment of British volunteer executives to assist private sector development in a single country.
He was the founding Regional Director of UNDP flagship programme in Africa (Enterprise Africa) for private sector and entrepreneurship development in Africa, a programme which he designed, established and managed, initially from New York, working closely with Ms Ellen Johnson Sirieaf, then Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP Africa before his appointment in 2001 as the first Ambassador to the United States.
Under his leadership as Regional Director, Enterprise Africa, he established enterprise support programmes and service organizations in 13 Sub-Saharan countries, and developed a strong Pan-African network of Business Development Services providers and client entrepreneurs in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Benin, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Mauritius.
Hon. Alan Kyerematen is currently the minister for Trade and Industry and also the managing director of A Wealth of Women Ghana BKD (Bridget Kyerematen Darko) in Ghana, a foundation formed to support her late sister’s work and legacy. SIA-Africa is proud to recognize Hon. Alan Kyerematen as the Person of the Month for May 2021.
