Evelyn Nyarko

Evelyn Nyarko is a Deputy Director at the Investor Services Division of the Ghana  Investment Promotion Centre. She is a Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Adviser and  an Economist with over 18 years of experience in the management of foreign direct  investment services, international trade, tourism and airline transactions.  

Over her professional career at the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, she has  provided cutting edge FDI advisory services to hundreds of foreign and domestic  companies from United States, China, United Kingdom, Latin America, and other  North American, Asia, European and some African countries to ensure their successful  establishment, operations and growth with and in Ghana. She currently leads as a  Deputy Director of the Investor Services Division to manage and monitor over US$40bn worth of Foreign Direct Investment in various sectors of the Ghanaian  economy including manufacturing, energy, real estate, tourism, agriculture and  healthcare.  

Evelyn has considerable understanding of the operational and the implementation  issues on global foreign investment and trade policies, through her participation in  incoming foreign investment missions to Ghana, foreign investment promotion  campaigns abroad, and in bilateral and multilateral trade and investment conferences  of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), the World Trade  Organization(WTO), the United States African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)  and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). 

Evelyn is an alum of Harvard University, with a Master of Public Administration Degree  from the Kennedy School. She also has an MPhil in Economics and a Bachelor’s  Degree in Economics and Geography from the University of Ghana and a Professional  Diploma in Ticketing and Reservation from International Air Transport Association  (I.A.T.A.). 

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