Edwin Kwabena Adjei - Member

Mr. Adjei has over thirty years stint with the banking industry. He started with the defunct Rural Banking Department of the Bank of Ghana and was responsible for the Establishment Office. His duties included: Procurement of relevant logistics, cocoa process schedules, administrative duties, among others for the Rural and Community Banks (RCBs).

He also worked at Human Resources Department and his role included: Head Pensions Unit-Co-ordinated and supervised the pensioners of the Bank; compiled, arranged and implemented training programmes.

Based on hard work he was moved to the Banking Supervision Department (BSD) as the substantive Administrative Officer with the roles of human resource and other administrative duties. He was later assigned to the Examination Office in the same department. As a Bank Examiner my core assignments were off-site and on-site examination of banks and specialized deposit taking institutions.

He was transferred to a novel department created by the Bank called Other Financial Institutions Supervision Department (OFISD), where he was the Head, Forex Bureaux Examination Office until his retirement in April 2017 on the Grade of Chief Manager.

He is currently an Executive Member of the Association of Rural Banks (ARB) Eastern Region Chapter. He is a board member of Anum Rural Bank and is Chairman of the Risk, Audit and Compliance (RAC) Committee, IT Steering Committee and Adhoc Building Committee at the same bank.

Mr. Adjei is a member of the Institute of Directors (Ghana) and a Chartered Banker (CIB-GH) and holds a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He also holds Executive Master of Business Administration (Finance), Bachelor of Science in Administration and a Diploma in Public Administration from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon.

He loves reading, traveling and facilitating banking and other educational programmes.
Mr. Adjei joined the Board of ARB Apex Bank in March, 2020 as the Eastern Region Representative of the Association of Rural Banks.