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.
Egbert Faibille Jnr. is the Ag. Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Commission – a regulatory agency under the Ministry of Energy. A lawyer by profession, called to the Ghana Bar in October 2004, Mr. Faibille Jnr, prior to his appointment, was the Managing Partner at Faibille & Faibille, a law firm in Accra. He also served as the Ghana Country Communications Representative of the West African Gas Pipleline Project (WAGP), when the Project was at its definitional phase. He was seconded to WAGP from his role as a Public Affairs Officer at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC). He was also the Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Manager of British American Tobacco (Ghana).
Mr. Faibille Jnr. has extensive media and communications practice, having been Managing Editor of The Independent and Managing Editor/Publisher of The Ghanaian Observer newspapers respectively. He is a member of the Board of the Petroleum Commission and chairs the Local Content Committee.
Kwaku Boateng is an Energy Economist with over 20 years senior management & leadership experience in the oil and gas industry and proven record of Oil and Gas Project Management, Regulation and Energy Policy formulation. He has an excellent knowledge of the commercial, policy and regulatory issues in the sector.
Currently he is a Director for Local Content at the Petroleum Commission, Ghana (a Petroleum Upstream Regulator. He was a member of the Project Implementation Committee that set up Ghana National Gas Company and prepared the Project Execution Strategy for Natural Gas Project. He later worked with that company as a Senior Manager for Gas Commercialization and Business Development. Earlier on he worked at BOST as the Head Natural Gas Division responsible for the company’s natural gas business development. Before joining BOST, Mr. Boateng worked with the Ministry of Energy as Head Petroleum Upstream and later acted as the Director Petroleum responsible for both upstream and downstream operations. During this period, he led the Ministry’s team in negotiating a number of Petroleum Agreements and develop Energy Policy, Local Content Policy, Local Content Regulations and a number of Regulations. As a member of the Core team, Mr, Boateng took part in the negotiation of West African Gas Pipeline Project and prepared a number of project agreements including the WAGP Treaty, IPA and WAGP Regulations. As a member of Core Team, he took part in the preparation of the draft Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill and preparing petroleum upstream regulations.
He also took part in the preparation of a number of important policy and legislative documents including: National Energy Policy, Gas Pricing Policy, Petroleum Revenue Management Regulations and Oil & Gas EITI. Mr. Boateng also has had many years of international consulting and business experience having worked with international consulting firms in many countries.
He also has several years of teaching and research experience in in a number of academic institutions such as South West Business School, Rasio, Finland, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology. he Academy GE Fellows Program prohe Academy GE Fellows Program pro
Isaac worked with the Operations and Maintenance department of Tullow (Ghana) Limited as a Senior Contracts Advisor. In 2009, he joined Gold Fields Ghana Limited as Senior Contracts administrator assigned to the Projects Department and moved on to lead the contract team in Damang Mine in 2015 before joining Tullow.
In 2004, he joined Swaako Engineering Services, mining industry as an estimator and held different roles from preparing AutoCAD drawings and shop drawings for fabrication and he rose through the ranks with increasing management responsibilities to the position of Contracts Manager. Isaac’s career started with a role as a clerk of works with Arch Team 4 Consultancy in Takoradi. Isaac has a strong commercial & technical background.
Anthony (Tony) Paul is an internationally recognized energy and strategy advisor. In his work with governments, NGOs and Think Tanks, he advocates for developing countries to maximize local benefits from their extractives resources, through capable and accountable regulators, who are able to maintain a predictable and attractive, yet fair investment and operations environment. He believes that citizens, as owners of the resources, deserve transparency and education to be able to play their role in managing the sector to shape their country’s destiny.
He has advised and supported several countries on their journeys to design and implement local content and capacity development policies, including Nigeria, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Guyana and his home countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana.
Tony holds a BSc in Geology from Imperial College, London and an MS in Geophysics from the University of Houston, Texas. He is currently serving as Hydrocarbons Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, Mozambique.
Nicholas is a Mechanical Engineer by profession with a strong background in Installation and commissioning of factory plant and equipment, Product Manufacturing and plant process operations, engineering maintenance and planning, safety, health, environment, and quality improvements. He has over 20years working experience in the FMCG industry with a very good managerial and communication skill.
He previously worked with Volta Aluminum company (Valco), Ghana Breweries Limited (GBL), Unilever Ghana Limited as a Maintenance and production supervisor, Wilmar Africa as the assistant Production and Plant manager and at Promasidor Ghana Limited, He was the Maintenance and Production Manager at the Culinary plant where he led a team to execute the installation and commissioning of a total of 9 sets of ONGA Tablet plant and equipment at the Factory successfully with increased production capacity up to 4,650 MT/month from a set target of 3,500 MT/month during the period from 2011 to 2018, where he finally joined Rigworld Solutions as the Factory Manager. He also led the team to successful install and commission all plant and equipment at the facility including a complete set of Flexible Hose Assembly (FHA) machines for fluid transport management, set of Thread Rolling machines for Stud bolt and Nuts production, valve maintenance, repairers, and valve management system workshop at Rigworld Solutions where he was subsequently promoted to the Head of Business Unit. He holds a master’s degree in Engineering Management with Coventry University and a Professional Engineering member of the Ghana Institute of Engineers.
