Joe Ghartey
- January 5, 2024
- Lawyer
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Joe Ghartey Biography
| Name | Joe Ghartey |
| Birthday | Jun 15 |
| Birth Year | 1961 |
| Home Town | Accra |
| Birth Country | Ghana |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Joe Ghartey is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on June 15, 1961 in Accra, Ghana. Joe Ghartey was born in Accra, Ghana, to an educator, Lauraine Ghartey (nee Daniels) and an official, Joseph Ghartey, on 15 June 1961. He began his education with Accra’s Ridge Church School in Accra and then moved on to the secondary school for boarding, Mfantsipim School located situated in Cape Coast. It was while in Mfantsipim School that his leadership skills began to emerge. He was elected House Prefect of Pickard-Parker House during his senior year. He utilized his excellent office to promote the growth of sport and participation in the sports programs at Mfantsipim. He would later be the Team Manager for the sports teams of the school.
All across the coast of Ghana Ghartey has been a pillar of support for numerous constituencies within his Western, Central, Greater Accra and Volta regions, which include Shama, Sekondi, Takoradi, Effie Kwasimintsim, Tarkwa, Prestea, Amenfi, Korle Klottey, La-Dade Kotopon and Hohoe. As of 2000, Ghartey served as a key member of the Western Regional Presidential Campaign Team of the NPP and travelled throughout the region along with then-candidate John Kufuor, who went to prevail in the presidential election in December of that year.
A naturally gifted speaker and a teacher at heart, Ghartey has also lectured in various fields of Law and Investment. He was an adjunct lecturer of Investment Law at the University of Ghana Business School. He has also served as lecturer in Corporate Governance and Executive MBA at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). He was also for a period an instructor at the Ghana Stock Exchange. In 2004, he authored what has become Ghana’s leading legal publication on Investment and Business, “Doing Business and Investing in Ghana – Legal and Institutional Framework”. He also taught Company Law at the Ghana School of Law and Mountcrest University in Accra.
During the administration of President John Agyekum Kufuor, Ghartey was appointed Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister of Justice in March
- He was soon promoted and appointed the substantive Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in June 2006, a position he held until January 2009 following the electoral loss of the NPP in the 2008 general elections. Ghartey was the longest serving Attorney-General and Minister of Justice under the Kufuor administration.
Ghartey took on the National Service duty as Legal Officer for his Komenda Eguafo Abirem District Assembly in the Central Region of the Republic of Ghana. He also landed the position of Associate in The Chambers of Lawyer Gwira in Sekondi. Then, he joined the Akufo-Addo firm Prempeh and Co. one of the top law firm in Ghana founded by his future friend, parliamentarian and Cabinet Minister of the John Kufuor administration, Nana Akufo-Addo. Ghartey was dismissed from the firm after just seven years and in 1994 founded the law firm Ghartey & Ghartey together with his spouse Efua Ghartey who is a renowned lawyer of her own. Ghartey is the current Senior Partner of Ghartey & Ghartey, a very well-known firm of barristers and Sand solicitors situated in Labone within Accra.
Joe Ghartey Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Lawyer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Joe Ghartey is one of the richest Lawyer from Ghana. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Ghartey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Joe Ghartey (born 15 June 1961 at Accra) is an Accra-born Ghanaian lawyer as well as an academic and politician. He is currently the Railways and Development minister. He was named by the president Nana Akuffo Addo on 11 January , 2017. Joe Ghartey hails from Shama located within the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana.
Following Mfantsipim, Ghartey enrolled to study law . He earned the LLB (Hons) qualification in the year 1986 at Ghana’s University of Ghana, and BL from the Ghana School of Law in 1988. He then became admitted into the Bar of Ghana in that the same year.
Ghartey is currently the NPP Member of Parliament for Essikado/Ketan Constituency in the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana. He was first elected to the seat in the December 2004 elections and was re-elected in both the December 2008 and December 2012 elections. In all the three elections he was not contested in the primaries of the NPP to choose the parliamentary candidate for the Constituency.
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In May, 2017, President Akufo-Addo created the Ministry of Railways Development as a cabinet position and named Joe Ghartey as the sector Minister his cabinet. Rt. Hon. Prof. Mike Ocquaye. .
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Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ghana. Joe Ghartey celebrates birthday on June 15 of every year.
Who is Joe Ghartey in Ghana?
Joe Ghartey (born 15 June 1961, in Accra) is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic and politician. He is a former Attorney-General of Ghana (2006-2009), Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament (2013-2017) and Railways and Development Minister (2017-2021). Joe Ghartey hails from Shama, in the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana.
How old is Joe ghartey?
60 years (June 15, 1961)
Who is the former minister of railway?
№NameTerm of office
35| Mallikarjun Kharge| 26 May 2014
36| D. V. Sadananda Gowda| 9 November 2014
37| Suresh Prabhu| 3 September 2017
38| Piyush Goyal| 7 July 2021
Who is the CEO of Railway Board?
Vinay Kumar Tripathi (Jan 1, 2022–Jun 30, 2022)
Who is the first woman railway Minister?
Surekha was born in Satara in Maharashtra on 2 September 1965 to Sonabai and Ramchandra Bhosale. Her father late. Ramchandra Bhosale was a farmer; she is the eldest of his five children. She had initial schooling at Saint Paul Convent High School, Satara.