Kofi Konadu Apraku is a Ghanaian politician and economist and a member of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana.
[1][2] Konadu Apraku was born at Akumadan in the Asante region of Ghana on 7 September 1954.
[3] He continued to the Tweneboa Kodua Secondary School between 1967 and 1972 and furthered his education in South Albany High School in Oregon, United States, after winning an AFS International essay competition after which he studied for economics degrees at the Oregon State University taking a doctorate in the subject.
[1] In 2008, he was appointed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers as ECOWAS Commissioner for Macro economic Policy and Economic Research where he was responsible for Multilateral surveillance mechanism which involves regular assessment through joint surveillance mission of the economies of ECOWAS members’ state to ascertain whether the convergences criteria are being met and provide economic and statistical data for member sate and help them attain the convergence criteria and the ECOWAS single currency.
[6][7][8] Dr. Apraku has had an extensive and successful professional career in the both private public sector.