Edward Annan also as Eddie Annan (born 22 February 1945) is a

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entrepreneur, politician, and art collector. He is the co-owner and co-founder of the Ghanaian domestic airline

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. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. He is a former board chairman of the

Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) is a public teaching hospital located in the Ablekuma South Metropolitan District in Accra, Ghana. It is the only public tertiary hospital in the southern part of the country. It is a teaching hospital affiliate ...

Early life and education

Edward Annan was born on 22 February 1945 to William Edward Annan and Beatrice Patricia Davis in

Kumasi Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie, usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in the Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe, and is the ...

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

. He had his secondary school education at

Mfantsipim School Mfantsipim is an all-boys boarding secondary school in Cape Coast, Ghana, established by the Methodist Church in 1876 to foster intellectual, moral, and spiritual growth on the then Gold Coast. Its founding name was Wesleyan High School and ...

. He obtained a master's degree in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

from the

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in Germany.

Career

Annan returned to Ghana and established Masai Developers Limited, a development company in 1977. He subsequently added Masai Computers Limited which was being operated on IBM Dealership and Masai motors Limited, SEAT Car Dealership to his group of companies. In March 2012, he was appointed as the board chairman

by President

John Evans 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 ...

. He later resigned in 2014 after agitations between him and the CEO of the hospital. At the age of 73, in partnership with DAC Aviation of

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, he co-founded a Ghanaian domestic airline

in 2017. The airlines started operations in 2018.

Politics

National Democratic Congress

Annan is a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and is considered a financier of the party.

Presidential bid

Ahead of the 2008 elections, Annan declared his intention and stood for the NDC's presidential elections in 2006, he stood against then former Vice President John Evans Atta Mills, former minister

Ekwow Spio-Garbrah Ekwow Spio-Garbrah (born 1953) is a Ghanaian politician who was Minister for Trade and Industry from 2014 to 2017 in the Mahama administration. He was formerly Minister of Communications, Minister of Education and Acting Minister of Mines & ...

and former minister Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu. On 21 December 2006, he lost the elections to the previous flag bearer for the 2000 and 2004 elections, John Evans Atta Mills. Mills won with a majority of 81.4% (1,362 votes) with Ekwow Spio-Garbrah coming in second with 8.7% (146 votes), Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu was third with 8.2% (137 votes), and whilst he was fourth with 1.7% (28 votes).

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