BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER ENGAGES GEXIM MANAGEMENT
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Her Excellency Harriet Thompson
on Thursday 13th February 2025 met with Executive Management of Ghana's
leading Development and Policy Bank, the Ghana Export - Import Bank
(GEXIM) at her residence in Cantonment, Accra.
The GEXIM team was led by the Acting Chief Executive, Hon. Sylvester
Mensah and included Mr. Moses Klu Mensah, Deputy Chief Executive
Officer, responsible for Banking and Business Operations and Mr.
Jonathan Christopher Koney, Manager, International Cooperation.
The meeting was a courtesy call on the High Commissioner by the new
Executive Management following their appointment by the President of the
Republic, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama. It also provided an
opportunity to discuss the strategic direction of the Bank under the
leadership of Hon. Sylvester Mensah.
The High Commissioner welcomed a request from the GEXIM team to
collaborate with the High Commission to support the management to
achieve the Bank's mission to be positioned as a main catalyst in the
development of Ghana's export trade, cross border trade facilitation and
elevating Ghana to become a pillar in regional and continental trade
culminating into employment creation.
Her Excellency Harriet Thompson further highlighted key projects being
undertaken by the High Commission across multiple sectors in Ghana in
collaboration with key United Kingdom government agencies as well as
British businesses.
Hon. Sylvester Mensah thanked the High Commissioner for hosting the
team and reaffirmed the Ghanaian government's commitment to
strengthening trade and investment between Ghana and its global partners
for economic transformation of Ghana with the Bank playing a pivotal
role.
He added that the Bank's immediate priority areas are accelerated export
trade, increased food production, support agribusiness and to generate
growth in job opportunities with focus on agriculture and the garment
sub-sector. In addition, the Bank will be aid in developing domestic
production leading to import substitution.
The two teams will be meeting in the coming days to develop progress
discussions.
