British High Commission Ghana

British High Commission Ghana 

The British High Commission in Ghana maintains and develops relations between the UK and Ghana. The High Commission of the United Kingdom in Accra is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Ghana. It is located on Gamel Abdul Nasser Avenue in the Osu district, opposite the Ghana Institute of Journalism and the International Press Centre. The current High Commissioner is Iain Walker who was appointed in 2017.

Mr. Iain Walker has been the UK’s High Commissioner to Ghana since August 2017.

Before this appointment, he was a Board Member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London as a Director of Finance and Strategy. After studying law at the University of Dundee, Scotland, Iain moved to London where he qualified as a chartered accountant with EY focusing on banking and capital markets. He worked for an International NGO in Malawi and Kenya then the UN in Ethiopia, before he returned to London working in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit initially for Tony Blair and then Gordon Brown.Arriving in Ghana on the 60th year of Independence, Iain’s priority is to draw on these strong, historic ties and now focus on the future: to shape a UK-Ghana partnership which is even stronger for the next 60 years.

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