Charles Adu Boahen

Charles K. Adu Boahen
Deputy Minister of State for Finance
In office
March 2017  14 November 2022
PresidentNana Akuffo-Addo
Preceded byCassiel Ato Forson
Personal details
BornGhana
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
RelationsKwabena Boahen (brother)
Parent
Alma materHarvard Business School, University of Southern California, Mfantsipim School, Achimota School
PortfolioFinance

Charles Kofi Adu Boahen (born May 1970) is a Ghanaian investment banker, businessman, politician and public servant who served as a Deputy Minister of Finance and then Minister of State at the Finance Ministry in the government of President Nana Akufo-Addo between 2017 and 2022. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He is the son of Mrs Jane Thyra Adu Boahen and Prof. Albert Adu Boahen, a global academic, historian and politician who became the New Patriotic Party's flagbearer in the 1992 Ghanaian general elections.

Prior to his stint in government, Adu Boahen had a 20 year career in private sector corporate finance, private equity and asset management commencing on New York's Wall Street, then on to Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa. After leaving his government role in November 2022, he has since returned to private business.