Profile: Dr. Hamza Bukari Zakaria, Economic Advisor to Ghana’s Vice President

Dr Hamza Zakaria has been appointed as an economic advisor to the Vice President of Ghana, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang.

He will be part of the Vice President’s team and is expected to provide sound economic counsel to the first female president.

Dr. Hamza Bukari Zakaria comes to the position with a wealth of experience as a macroeconomist, economic governance specialist, and public financial management (PFM) specialist.

Read His Profile Below:

Alhaji Dr. Hamza Bukari Zakaria is a Macroeconomist, Economic Governance and Public Financial Management (PFM) Specialist at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) at the Embassy of Switzerland in Ghana.

He manages an important portfolio of Swiss economic development cooperation in Ghana which consist of bilateral programmes on national and decentralised budget support operations, domestic revenue mobilisation, debt management and Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms.

He is also responsible for global programmes implemented in collaboration with the IMF and the World Bank on the Extractive Industries and Transparency International (EITI), and managing natural resource wealth and revenue mobilisation trust funds. Hamza is ethically courageous and willing to do the right things even when no one is watching. He has 17 years of work experience in various fields.

Before joining SECO, Dr Hamza taught at the graduate School of Public Service and Governance, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra. He was also a Research Fellow at the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Tamale.

Hamza has a solid academic background in Development Studies and holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester, UK.

He is a certified integrity builder, trained in the prestigious Central European University. He is not only critical about the current political establishment, but prepared to challenge orthodoxies to create the ideal political system that redistributes opportunities, jobs and wealth fairly to develop the Ghana we want.

Dr Hamza Bukari (SOKAM DOKTA) is a proud product of the Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO) where he completed as the best General Arts Student in 2001.

He is also a proud product of the Bagabaga Demonstration Junior High School and Bagabaga Primary School in Sagnarigu. He is a resident of Wurishe and an indigene of the Sagnarigu Constituency. He has a strong network within the donor community.

Dr Hamza has demonstrated his commitment to promoting the economic and financial independence of the youth in his constituency by providing them with sustainable jobs.

Dr. Hamza Bukari has a solid political foundation and is nurtured on the core values and principles of transparency, probity, and accountability. He is currently a law student at the Mountcrest University Law Faculty.

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