Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen (born 3 October 1955)[1] is a Ghanaian politician, a corporate executive, and a former member of the New Patriotic Party.

[2][3] He was also Ghana's Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2003 and later as Minister of Trade and Industry, Private Sector Development (PSD), and Presidential Special Initiatives (PSI) during the John Kufuor's administration.

He was named after an archbishop in the Church of England,[9] Alan John Knight, who was his father's mentor and the headmaster of the all-boys Anglican boarding school, Adisadel College in Cape Coast[10] in the 1930s.

He began his career as a junior manager where he rose to become senior corporate executive at the age of twenty-two with a subsidiary of Unilever Ghana, becoming one of the youngest individuals to hold such a position.

[21] In 1994, Kyerematen was listed by the Time magazine as one of the 100 global leaders for sector millennium, alongside Bill Gates, John F. Kennedy Jr., and others.

[21] Ghana, on 17 December 2012, nominated Kyerematen for the post of WTO Director-General to succeed Pascal Lamy, whose term of office was due to expire on 31 August 2013.

At the congress organised to shortlist the number of prospective candidates from 7 to 5, Kyerematen polled 7.97% of the valid votes cast compared to Akufo-Addo's 80.81%.

[24][32][33] On 25 September 2023 Alan Kyeremanten quit NPP and decided to contest 2024 general election as an independent candidate.

[21] In that capacity, he spearheaded the development and implementation of innovative programmes which have become new strategic pillars of growth for the transformation of the Ghanaian economy.

His tenure as Trade Minister saw the establishment of an $8.5 million cassava processing factory to produce high grade industrial starch from for export to key markets in Europe, Africa and Asia.

The starch initiative created over 10,000 jobs and piloted a new innovative approach to rural industry development based on the concept of Corporate Village Enterprises.

He also led the construction of a multimillion-dollar enclave within the Tema Free Zone, dedicated to garments manufacturing for the export market by Ghanaian entrepreneurs.

He played lead roles in both the regional preparatory process towards the WTO Cancun and Hong Kong Ministerial Meetings, particularly during the latter, in which he was one of the privileged few amongst Trade Ministers in the World, to have been appointed as a member of the Chairman's Consultative Group.

[21] Under his direction, a comprehensive Ghana Trade Policy was launched as a major plank in the government's strategy for accelerating and sustaining economic growth and increasing incomes and employment.

He led the process of preparing a $200-million implementation blueprint, called the Trade Sector Support Programme (TSSP), which was launched in October 2005.

[21] Additionally, as part of a government investment delegation, Alan Kyerematen was instrumental in the negotiation of the contract that led to the arrival of US start-up company, Kosmos Energy, to Ghana to explore and discover oil in commercial quantities.

[39][40] On Wednesday, 11 January 2023, Alan John Kyerematen officially announced his intention to contest the NPP’s flagbearership and underwent a successful vetting process on Monday, 3 July.

[43] However, he took to social media on 5 September to announce his decision to resign from contesting his party's national delegate congress which was slated for 4 November 2023.

"[49] The movement for change came as a result of Alan John Kyerematen resignation from the New Patriotric Party (NPP) to contest as an independent candidate for the 2024 General Election.