Daniel Ohene Agyekum
Daniel Ohene Agyekum (born 10 March 1942) is a Ghanaian diplomat and politician who is member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who served as the former Ambassador to the United States of America during the John Evans Atta Mills government between 2009 and 2013. He has served as Regional Minister for Eastern, Ashanti and Greater Accra regions in the past. He also served as Minister of state in charge of Chieftaincy and State Protocol during the Jerry John Rawlings Government from 2000 to 2001. Agyekum also held the Ashanti Regional Chairman position of the NDC from 2005 to 2008. He has been involved in the NDC's campaign activities since the parties inception in 1992 serving on several campaign teams especially in 2016, when he was appointed as a member of the National Campaign team and in 2018 when as appointed Campaign Manager for former President John Dramani Mahama's bid for and 2020 re-election respectively. Early life and education Agyekum was born March 10, 1942, at Juaso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana (then Gold Coast), which was then a British colony. He started his primary basic education at Juaso. Ohene Agyekum then moved to Achimota School where he attained his G.C.E. Ordinary Level in 1960 and Advanced level in 1962 respectively. In 1965, Agyekum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Ghana, Legon and joined the Ghana Foreign Service coincidentally that same year. In 1966, he obtained a post-graduate diploma in Public Administration at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration; as part of his diplomatic training, and he then furthered his education at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia where he earned an International Certificate in Diplomacy in 1970. Diplomatic career Agyekum joined Ghana Foreign Service in 1965 right after completing his bachelor's degree, In 1966, shortly after the coup that deposed President Kwame Nkrumah, Ohene Agyekum was sent to his home region of Ashanti to serve as a District Administrative Officer, a position he held until 1969. He subsequently received his first diplomatic posting to Tel Aviv, Israel, after six years of joining the Foreign service. He served there from 1971 to 1974. Agyekum was moved to the Ghana Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark where he also served from 1976 to 1981. After serving in Cophenhagen he returned to Accra, Ghana in 1981 to serve as the deputy Director for the Middle East and Asia Divisions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs till 1982 when he was reassigned to serve as Advisor on International Relations for Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) within the period of Military rule under President Jerry John Rawlings. Ambassador Canada He was appointed to serve as Ghana's High Commissioner (ambassador) to Canada in December 1986, a role that he served in for six years, until 1992. During his tenure in Ottawa as High Commissioner, Agyekum led Ghana's delegation in negotiations leading to the adoption of the Montreal Protocol on the substances that deplete the Ozone Layer, held in