Mahamudu Bawumia

Mahamudu Bawumia is a Ghanaian politician and former central banker who serves as the 5th Vice President of Ghana in the 4th Ghanaian Republic. Bawumia is the New Patriotic Party flagbearer in the 2024 general election
Bawumia was born on Monday, 7 October 1963 in Tamale, Ghana.
Mahamudu Bawumia attended the Tamale Secondary School in 1975. After graduating from Tamale Secondary School, he went to the United Kingdom where he studied banking and obtained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (ACIB).
He then obtained a master's degree in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1995.
From 1988 to 1990, Bawumia worked as a lecturer in Monetary Economics, and International Finance at the Emile Woolf College of Accountancy in London, England. He also served as an economist at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Bawumia also previously served as Resident Representative of the African Development Bank in Zimbabwe.
Between 1996 and 2000, Bawumia served as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA, where he also received the Young Researcher Award in 1998.
Bawumia returned to Ghana in 2000 to work as an economist at the Bank of Ghana. President John Kufuor appointed him as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana in June 2006. He served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, until his nomination as the vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2008, standing alongside presidential candidate and current president Nana Akufo-Addo.
On Friday, June 16, 2023, Bawumia filed his nomination to contest in the NPP Presidential primaries. Bawumia won the NPP presidential primary with 61.43% of total valid votes cast.