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Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia

MAHAMUDU Bawumia was born  to the late Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, former chairman of the council of state (1992-2000) and  Hajia Mariama Bawumia.

Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party

Bawumia’s father Mumuni Bawumia was a teacher, Lawyer and Politician.

Born into a large family, Mahamadu Bawumia was the twelfth of his father’s 18 children and the second of his mother’s five.

Mahamadu Bawumia attended the Sakasaka primary school in Tamale, and gained admission to Tamale Secondary School in 1975.he was President of the Ghana United Nations students association (GUNSA) for 1981. After graduating from Tamale Secondary School, he went to the United Kingdom where he studied Banking and obtained the Chartered Institute of Bankers Diploma (ACIB). He took a first class honors Degree in Economics at Buckingham University in 1987.

He then obtained a Master’s Degree in Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and obtained a PhD in economics at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1995. His areas of specialization include macroeconomics, international economics, development economics and monetary policy. He has numerous publications.

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From 1988 to 1990, Bawumia worked as a lecturer in monetary economics, and international finance at the Emile Woolf College of accountancy in London, England. He also served as an economist at the research department of the international monetary fund in Washington, dc, USA.

Between 1996 and 2000, Bawumia served as an assistant professor of economics at Hankamer School of business, Baylor University, Texas, USA, where he also received the young researcher award in 1998. He was listed in “who is who among America’s teachers” in 1999.

Bawumia returned to Ghana in 2000 to work as an economist at the bank of Ghana.

He rose from senior economist to head of department, and subsequently as special assistant to the governor of the bank. President J.A Kuffour appointed Bawumia as deputy governor of the bank of Ghana in June 2006.shortly after the 2008 election Bawumia resigned as Deputy Governor at the Bank of Ghana.

Mahamudu Bawumia was running mate to the new patriotic party candidate in the 2008 elections, Nana Akufo-Addo. The NPP increase its share of the vote compared to 2004 in all the three northern regions, in both the first and second

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Bawumia was re-nominated as the vice-presidential candidate to Nana Akufo-addo for the 2012 general elections in March 2012. The party won ten (10) seats in the northern region including Yendi, Walewale, Yagaba-Kubore, Bunkpungu, Bimbilla, Chereponi, Kpandai, Tatale-Sanguli, Tolon and Zabzugu. It also won the Nabdan and Talensi constituencies in the upper east region. Overall, Nana Akufo-Addo and Bawumia lost the presidential election to incumbent John Dramani Mahama.

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