Lauretta Lamptey

Lauretta Vivian Lamptey is a former Ghanaian Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice. She is a lawyer and an investment banker.

Education Lamptey had her secondary education at Aburi Girls' Senior High School prior to studying law at the University of Ghana, Legon where she gained the LL. B. in 1980. She continued to the Ghana School of Law, where she qualified as a barrister in 1982. In 1986, she gained admission to studied international business law at the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London, where she acquired the LL. M. degree in 1987.

Work In 1990, Lauretta Lamptey was the head of the Capital Markets Group at Ecobank Ghana. She moved from there to become head of corporate finance at Cal Merchant Bank in 1996.

Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice Lauretta was sworn in as the Commissioner on 26 July 2011 by President John Atta Mills. She was removed in November 2015 by President Mahama following investigations by the Chief Justice of Ghana following allegations made against her.