Accra, March 26, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor has on the advice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Services Commission appointed Dr Nii Kwaku Sowa as the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Dr Sowa has been commissioner at SEC since 2002 and has been acting as the Director-General since August 2005.

An economist by training, Dr. Sowa has several years of teaching and research experience in Economics and Development Policy. He lectured at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he made immense contribution to training and research as the head of the Department.

He joined the Centre for Policy Analysis in 1996 as one of its Core Research Fellows.

He has held several international lecturing and research positions at highly reputable foreign institutions including Oxford University, the University of Warwick and the Overseas Development Institute, all in the UK.

He has also been a visiting scholar to the Research Department of the IMF.

Dr Sowa has published widely in academic journals and books, mostly in the areas of Money and Banking and Economic Policy Management issues. His academic writings have won him recognition around the globe. In 1997, he was named the First Michael Bruno Visiting Fellow to the World Bank for his research contributions in understanding inflation. Earlier his work on Monetary Control in Ghana had won the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences best academic article award in 1991.

He has served as an economic consultant to several international organizations including the World Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), as well as the development agencies of most of Ghana's major development partners. Dr Sowa is also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana.