Alex Kofi Mensah Mould is a

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chemical engineer and politician who is a former

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. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress of Ghana. Before he was appointed CEO of GNPC, he was the CEO of National Petroleum Authority.

Early life and education

Mould attended

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and graduated in 1978. He proceeded to the

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is a public University of Ghana that focuses on science and technology. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is the public university established in the country, as well a ...

where he studied

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. He graduated from the university in 1985 with a

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degree. He enrolled at the College of Petroleum Studies,

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where he obtained a

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in Oil Marketing and Economics in 1989. In 1994, he obtained a

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degree in finance, Accounting and Decision Science from J.L Kellogg Graduate School,

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Career

After graduating from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Mould was posted to do his one-year

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at the newly created Ghana National Petroleum Corporation in 1985. After service, he was employed by the corporation as a Chemical engineer. He rose through the ranks to become a special assistant to the CEO of GNPC in the area of marketing. In 1997, Mould resigned from the corporation and was appointed as a senior associate at Structured Trade Finance Americas of

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from 1997 to 1999. He moved banks and was employed as associate director of Commodity Finance at

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in New York from 1999 to 2001. Mould was moved to the Ghana branch of Standard Chartered Bank in 2001. He remained the Director and Co-Head of the Wholesale department till 2008.

National appointments

When the

John Atta Mills John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party ...

administration was voted into power in 2009, Mould was appointed chief executive officer of the

National Petroleum Authority National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is a statutory body set up by the Government of Ghana to regulate, oversee and monitor the Ghanaian petroleum industry. The authority was established after calls by the general public for efficiency, growth and s ...

. He remained in the position till 2012. In January 2013, when the

John Dramani Mahama John Dramani Mahama (; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as presi ...

administration took over the reins of government, Mould was sent to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation as its chief executive. He took over from Nana Boakye Asafu Adjaye, who had headed the corporation since 2009. He remained in the position till the end of the John Mahama administration. In January 2017, he was replaced by

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Personal life

Mould is a brother to Betty Mould-Iddrisu a former Minister of Justice under the John Atta Mills administration and a former Minister of Education under the John Dramani Mahama administration. He lost his daughter, Naa Densua to Malaria on 1 January 2020. This was when she was on holiday in

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References

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