Ibrahim Mohammed Awal

Ibrahim Mohammed Awal (born 1962)

Educational life Ibrahim Awal attended Ghana Senior High School in the Northern Region of Ghana before proceeding to the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra. He resigned in 2010 to take up the position of managing director of Chase Petroleum — a downstream oil marketing company. At the time of his appointment, Mohammed Awal was the CEO of Marble Communication Group Limited, a private publishing house in Ghana.

Minister for Business Development On 12 January 2017, Mohammed Awal was nominated by President Akuffo-Addo for the position of Minister for Business Development. The ministry was a new ministry and is to formulate policies and facilitate the work of Ghana's private sector. His appointment was hailed by the Ghana Union of Traders, the Association of Ghana Industries and the general business community in the country with most wondering why it had not been established earlier under previous governments. During his vetting he made known to the committee that he would help set up 20 bid companies by 2020 to reduce unemployment. Under this policy his ministry would help promote the interest of business by reducing interest rates, do away with nuisance taxes and speed up the rate for business registration while protecting locally manufactured goods from unfair competition from foreign imports. In May 2017, he made it known that it was his ministry's plan encourage the private sector to grow the economy and triple annual gross domestic product to 200 billion cedis by 2020. Dr. Awal has disclosed at the launch of the Zongo Business Initiative in Tamale that government has allocated ¢10m to support Zongo youth entrepreneurs in the five regions of the north, to help flake up their businesses.

Personal life Mohammed Awal is Muslim and is married with four children.