Hon. Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta is the Minister for Finance and an investment banker. He assumed office as Ghana’s Finance Minister on January 27, 2017. He holds an MBA from the Yale University School of Management. In August 1980, Hon. Ofori-Atta was enrolled at Columbia University for a B.A. in Economics. He graduated from Columbia in 1984 and worked at Morgan Stanley in New York. He also attended Achimota School for his O-Level and A-Level certificates received in 1976 and 1978 respectively. He worked for the investment bank, Salomon Brothers. Ofori-Atta co-founded Databank Financial Services with Keli Gadzekpo and Togbe Afede XIV in 1990; he served as its Executive Chairman until 14 February 2012 when he went on retirement.