Kwaku Kwarteng

Kwaku Agyemang Kwarteng (born February 12, 1969)[1] is a Ghanaian civil engineer, economist, and politician.

He is a two term Member of Parliament for Obuasi West constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

[6] When the John Agyekum Kufour administration left power in 2009, he became a policy advisor for the New Patriotic Party from 2010 to 2013.

[8] In 2011 he was elected as the New Patriotic Party candidate to contest the newly created Obuasi West constituency.

[8] In January 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo nominated Kwarteng and Charles Adu Boahen to become the deputy ministers of finance.

[12][13][14][15] During his vetting, he claimed that the John Dramani Mahama administration had left outstanding arrears of 7 billion cedis owed various institutions in the country.