Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari

Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari is a Ghanaian economist and currently the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

Prior to assuming the role of Deputy Governor, Opoku-Afari worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Opoku-Afari also worked for 13 years at the Bank of Ghana, rising through the ranks to become the Head of the Special Studies Division in the Research Department and later elevated to the position of the Special Assistant to the Governor of Bank of Ghana from June 2006 until he left the Bank of Ghana in October 2009