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Kofi Otutu Adu Labi is a lawyer, management
consultant and author. He is also a Church Elder, teacher
and preacher.
He was educated at Ofori Panin Secondary School,
Achimota School, University of Ghana, the Ghana
School of Law and the University of Bradford School of
Management. He was called to the Ghana Bar on 2nd
October, 1975.
He also studied at the International Law Institute
(Washington DC), the Cranfield School of Management
and London Business School. He is an alumnus of the
Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership, Hawaii.
He served as Advisor under two Governors of the
Bank of Ghana (Dr Paul Acquah and Mr Kwesi Amissah-
Arthur). He started his banking career at the then SSB
Bank (now Societé Generale Ghana) as a pioneering
staff in 1976 and was the founding head of the Legal
Department, before rising to the position of General
Manager.
He is a Director of the Ghana Institute of Linguistics,
Literacy and Bible Translation (GILLBT). He has held
a number of directorships including Commissioner,
Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana, the
National Pensions Regulatory Authority, Taysec
Construction, Taysec Properties, Scripture Union
Ghana, Victory Presbyterian Church School and the
Bible Society of Ghana. He is a member of the Projects
and Investments Committee of the Presbyterian Church
of Ghana. He had before then served as a Trustee of the
Presbyterian Church of Ghana Education Foundation
for over 10 years. He has been a Member of Council
of the Christian Service University, Kumasi. He is a
Trustee of the Esther Ocloo Memorial Foundation. He
has held the position of Senior Presbyter and Presbyter
at the Dansoman Emmanuel and Victory (Fafraha)
congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
respectively.
In June 2010, he was the guest of Queen Elizabeth
at the Royal Tea Tent as part of the Queen’s annual tea
parties.
In March 2011 he was invited to speak on a panel
at the first-ever Financial Infrastructure conference
of the World Bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He spoke
on the topic: “The role of Central Banks in a secured
transactions reform programme.”
In May of the same year, the International Finance
Corporation (IFC) invited him to attend the Fourth
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed
Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul as a panelist. The
purpose of the Conference was to adopt new measures
and strategies for the sustainable development of the
LDCs into the next decade.
He has served as a member of the Advisory Board of
the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW). He has authored
17 books of which seven have so far been endorsed by the National Council for
Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) as supplementary
readers for schools in Ghana. He has also contributed a
chapter to another book, Letters of Hope to my Younger
Self. He is a recipient of the GAW Achievement Award,
2019.
He has been married to Elioenai since 1978 and they
have five adult children and three grandchildren.
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