NANA AMA POKU

DEPUTY MANAGING-DIRECTOR CORPORATE RESOURCES

Nana Ama is a result driven Executive with a unique blend of across department oversight in Development Finance/Policy Banking and Commercial Banking. She is a seasoned leader with over two decades experience implementing process improvement to enhance revenue, workflow, and customer satisfaction.

Nana Ama is adept at corporate strategy execution at the C-Suite Level with extensive insight in end-to-end financing support for agriculture production, agro-processing, import substitution, strategic importation, and export trade.

She has extensive experience in Risk Management, Banking Operations, SME and Corporate Banking, Government guaranteed project financing, and support for non-bank financing institutions as well as oversight of core support functions including Corporate Communications, Administration and Product Development.

Her immediate past role was as Deputy Chief Officer (Business/Banking) at Ghana Export-Import Bank and is a Member, Trade Finance Technical Working Group (Ghana) for the operationalization of the Africa Free Trade Continental Area (AFCFTA).

Prior to this, she had 15 (fifteen) years across department experience in First Atlantic Bank with her final role being Head, Financial Institutions.

She holds an Executive MBA (Entrepreneurial Management) from the University of Ghana Business School, Legon; and MA (Marketing Communications) from the University of Westminster Business School, UK; and a BA (Social Sciences) from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghanaand is a Member, Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (MCIMG).

She is the recipient of several awards and honors including Ghana Women of Excellence, Global Leadership Excellence Award, Outstanding Women in Finance Award and is the Global Chair (Exports and Credit) at the Women Economic forum (WEF).