Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Ghana Business School, Lord Mensah has been appointed as the new Head of Local Government Service.
With a strong academic background, Professor Lord Mensah holds a PhD in Applied Economics-Finance from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, an MSc in Financial Mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
He brings to the role a wealth of international exposure, having presented papers at leading finance and economics conferences globally including the World Finance Conference in Portugal, the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, and events hosted in the U.S., South Africa, Vietnam, France, and Singapore.
His extensive research portfolio is widely cited and indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.
Beyond academia, Prof. Lord Mensah has consulted for prominent institutions such as the Central Bank of Nigeria, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Bank of Ghana.
He also serves as Executive Director of the African Centre for Development Finance and is a familiar voice in Ghana’s financial discourse across media and corporate platforms.
His appointment signals a strategic move to bring financial and economic expertise to the governance of local government systems, with potential implications for fiscal decentralisation and development financing in Ghana.
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