Joshua Yindenaba Abor

Joshua Yindenaba Abor

Joshua Yindenaba Abor is a Financial Economist, qualified Accountant and Professor of Finance with numerous years of expertise, mainly in development finance and economics research, as well as in senior–level practitioner, policy and consulting roles. He is a former Dean of one of the largest Business Schools in Africa – University of Ghana Business School. He holds PhD in Finance from Stellenbosch University after completing the PhD coursework in Financial Economics at the Department of Economics, Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), UK. He served as an Afreximbank Research Fellow and has also held Visiting Scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Washington DC, USA. He is an External Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance, SOAS University of London, an Adjunct Professor of Development Finance at Stellenbosch University, an Adjunct Professor in Monetary and Financial Economics at the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana, and a Researcher with the African Economic Research Consortium. He contributes to the financial economics and finance literature, mainly in the areas of banking and finance, monetary policy, development finance, financial market development, FinTech and financial inclusion, SME Finance, private sector development, corporate finance and governance, international finance and trade, international financial flows and growth. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Canadian Economic Association, the Economic Society of South Africa, and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Joshua serves on the boards of some companies, including SAS Investment Management Ltd, Ghana Investment and Securities Institute, and UG Enterprises Ltd (UGEL). He currently chairs the boards of Allianz Life Insurance, Ghana, Best Western Premier Hotel, Macro Shipping Ltd, and Oasis Capital Ghana Ltd, and chaired the board of SIC Life Company Ltd. He is also a Director and Senior Consultant with the Corporate Support Group (a management, financial and economic consulting firm) and is a member of the Bank of Ghana Monetary Policy Committee.