J. KOFI BUCKNOR

CEO, J. KOFI BUCKNOR & ASSOCIATES, GHANA

Mr. Bucknor is an investment banker with a 24-year career in international finance. He currently manages J. Kofi Bucknor and Associates, which provides corporate finance services to corporate clients and Governments, primarily in Africa. Prior to establishing J. Kofi Bucknor and Associates, Mr. Bucknor served as the Managing Director of Cal Merchant Bank, Ghana from 1997 - 2000. Before joining Cal, Mr. Bucknor was an Executive Director for Corporate Finance with Lehman Brothers, London focusing on Africa from 1994 - 1997.

He served as Deputy Treasurer and then Treasurer of the African Development Bank in Abidjan from 1986 - 1994. While at ADB, he was responsible for managing the bank's $3 billion multi-currency investment portfolio as well as its capital market and banking operations.

Mr. Bucknor was also a Vice President of Chemical Bank in New York and managed the bank's Regional Representative Office in Abidjan from 1983 to 1986. He has also worked with the First Boston Corporation in New York, Merchant Bank of Ghana and the Northern Ireland Electricity Service during his student days (1975 - 1978).

He is a former Director of Ashanti Goldfields Company, a former member of the Policy Committee of the Centre for African Studies, Oxford University. He has also served on the International Advisory Committee of Normandy Mining Corporation of Australia. In addition, Mr. Bucknor was a member of the Commonwealth Secretary General's Special Advisory Group on the Asian Financial Crisis.

Mr. Bucknor currently co-chairs the Ghana Bond Market Committee, and chairs the Ghana Stock Exchange Council. He is a member of the Council of the University College of Education and serves on the Boards of Directors of TA Holdings Limited of Zimbabwe, Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, Alliance Française and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated. Mr. Bucknor also serves as an Adviser to HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on the Prince's African Investments.

Mr. Bucknor who is fluent in French, holds a BSc in Administration (1976) from the University of Ghana and an MBA in Finance (1979) from Columbia University in New York.