General News of Friday, 15 August 2008

Source: GNA

CV of Mahamudu Bawumia

Accra, Aug. 15, GNA - The following is the CV of Dr.
Mahamudu Bawumia who was endorsed by the National Executive
Committee of the New Patriotic Party as the running mate of the flag
bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Dr Bawumia, who was born on October 7, 1963, has been a
Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana since June 2006. He is also Chairman, Capital Market Committee- Ghana Other
details are: 2001-2006 Head, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
Department, Bank of Ghana/ Special Assistant to the Governor
2000-2001 Senior Economist and Head of Economic Analysis,
Bank of Ghana Research Department
1996-2000 Assistant Professor of Economics, Hankamer School of
Business, Baylor University, Texas, USA
1994- Economist, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.
Research Department.
1988-1990 Lecturer in Monetary Economics, International Finance.
Emile Woolf College of Accountancy, London, England.
EDUCATION
1991 - 1995 Ph.D. in Economics Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia., Canada
Specialization: Macroeconomics, International Economics, and
Monetary Economics
1987- 1988 M.Sc. in Economics University of Oxford, UK (Lincoln College)
1984-1986 B.Sc. Economics (First Class Hons.) University of Buckingham, UK
1982-1984 Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (A.C.I.B) -U.K
With distinctions in Monetary Economics, Accountancy, Law and
Banking Principles. Emile Woolf College of Accountancy, London,
England
1975-82 GCE O and A Levels- Tamale Secondary School
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2007 Fellow, Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana
1999 Young Researcher Award: Baylor University, Texas, USA
1995.5 -1999.9 President's Research Fellowship: Ph.D. Simon
Fraser University,
1986 Sir Alan Peacock Prize. Best Economics Student, Department of Economics, University of Buckingham, UK.
PUBLICATIONS

"The Determination of Bank Interest Spreads in Ghana: An

Empirical Analysis of Panel Data" with Martin Ofori and Franklin

Belnye, September, 2005.

"Developing a Composite Indicator of Economic Activity in

Ghana", with Benjamin Amoah, Bank of Ghana Working Paper,

February, 2004

"A simple Vector Error correction Forecasting Model for Ghana",

with Joseph Atta-Mensah, Bank of Ghana Working Paper August

2003

"Monetary Growth, Inflation and Exchange Rate Policy in Ghana" Research Department, Bank of Ghana, Journal of the West African

Monetary Institute, 2003.

"The Transmission mechanism for Monetary Policy in Ghana" with

Philip Abradu-Otoo, Bank of Ghana Policy Paper , August, 2003

"The Determinants of Exchange Rates in Ghana", with Zakari

Mumuni. Bank of Ghana Working Paper. March, 2003

"The Feasibility of Monetary Union in West Africa". Mimeo.

Economic Commision for Africa. November 2002.

"Comparative Institutional Features of Different Common Central Banks" West African Monetary Institute. Mimeo. February, 2002.

"Designing an Exhange Rate Mechanism for the West African

Monetary Zone". West African Monetary Institute. Mimeo.

February, 2002.

"Explaining African Economic Growth Performance: The case of

Ghana" with Ernest Aryeetey and A. Fosu. Paper prepared for the

African Economic Research Consortium. April 2001.

"Assessing the effectiveness of Intervention on the Foreign

Exchange Market in Ghana". Research Department, Bank of Ghana,

February 2000.

"A Review of the Literature of the Impact of Financial Sector

Liberalization on the Poor" with Dr. E.K.Y. Addison and Maxwell

Opoku Afari, Research Department, Bank of Ghana, August, 2000.

"Financial Markets in Africa. Issues and Challenges for Research."

With Professor Ernest Aryeetey, ISSER. October, 2000AERC

"Currency Substitution and Money Demand in Ghana: A

Cointegration Analysis". Research Department, Bank of Ghana,

November, 2000.

" Why the Apparent Rush to Market Reform"? Journal of

Economics, 1999.

" The Sequencing of Fiscal Reform during Structural Adjustment.

Lessons from Ghana, Uganda, and Zimbabwe". Comparative

Economic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII No.2/3 Summer-Fall 1996

"A Closer Look at The Distributional Impact of Ghana's Structural

Adjustment Program (1983-1992). Journal of Modern African

Studies. Vol.36 No.1, March 1998.

"Estimating the Aggregate Values of Human Capital in Sub- Saharan Africa", co-authored with Samuel A.Laryea. Review of Human Factor Studies. Vol. III No.1. June 1997

"Africa, the Challenge of Development". Book Chapter in Stephen.

Gardner's Comparative Economic Systems, Dryden, 1999.