Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer is Deputy Minister for Energy and Member of Parliament for Sekondi Constituency in the Western Region of Ghana. Andrew Mercer is also a lawyer with extensive corporate, commercial and finance sector practice experience. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister, he served as Lead Attorney and Chief Executive of Messrs. Mercer & Company, a corporate and investment law firm based in Accra. He previously served as the head of the Legal Division of First Atlantic Bank; overseeing the Legal, Company Secretarial and Corporate Affairs Departments of the Bank. Andrew also had a previous practice stint with Messrs. Acquah-Sampson & Associates where he commenced his legal practice initially as a pupil and subsequently as Senior Associate before joining the Bank.
Presently, he serves on the Constitutional, Legal & Parliamentary Affairs, the Privileges and the Special Budget Committees of Parliament. He previously served on the Communications Committee of Parliament.
He is a Member of the Ministerial Advisory Board of the Ministry of Energy and has previously served on several Boards of corporate entities in both the public and private sectors including that of the Ghana National Gas Company.