Ashni Kumar Singh is a Guyanese politician. He serves as

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

. He also served in this role from September 2006 to May 2015. Prior to his first appointment as minister, Singh was the Director of Budget in the Ministry of Finance and Deputy Auditor General in the Office of the Auditor General, as well as a chairman in the Governing Board of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the

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. Between tenures as minister, he worked for the

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. As acting Minister, Singh also represented Guyana on the Boards of Governors of the IMF, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Singh attended Queen's College, and has a PhD in Accounting and Finance from

Lancaster University Lancaster University (legally The University of Lancaster) is a public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several pla ...

. He is married and has two children.

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