Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is a Ghanaian economist, banker, and politician. He is the current Vice President of Ghana having assumed office on 7 January 2017.
Bawumia was a 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 Nana Akufo-Addo.
He also ran as the NPP vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 general elections and was the lead witness for the petitioners in the 2012/2013 Presidential Election Petition which challenged the declaration of John Mahama as the winner of the election.
Bawumia was born on October 7, 1963, in Tamale to Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia and Hajia Mariama Bawumia. Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Mahamudu Bawumia attended the Sakasaka Primary school in Tamale and gained admission to 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 took a First Class Honours Degree in Economics at Buckingham University in 1987.
He then obtained a master’s degree in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1995.
Alhaji Bawumia was awarded the highest national honour, membership of the Order of the Star of Ghana in March 1999.
He served as the Chairman of the Council of State under the NDC government during the 4th republic under President J. J. Rawlings.
Mahamudu Bawumia Wife
Dr. Bawumia is married to Samira Ramadan and has four children.