Richard Quartei Quartey is a Ghanaian accountant who served as the Auditor-General of Ghana from 2009 to 2016 and vice-chair of the UN's Independent Audit Advisory Committee in 2020.
[1][2][3] A product of the University of Ghana Business School, Quartey was appointed by John Evans Atta Mills in 2010 as the Auditor-General,[4] serving until he retired and was replaced by Daniel Yaw Domelevo.
In the foreign service, he has also undertaken several audit and investigative assignments for the United Nations including UNICEF, UN Pension Fund, International Criminal Tribunal, among others.
[4] Prior to his appointment, he acted as the Auditor-General for one year following the retirement his predecessor Edward Dua Agyeman in 2009.
[7][10][11] From 2010 to 2016, he also chaired the Audit Working Group, which is a sub-committee of the Public Financial Management system of the Government of Ghana where Development Partners including the Multi-Donor Budget Support Group, come together hold discussion on the governance aspect of donor supports to Ghana.