Dr. Alfred Ofosu - Ahenkorah

Dr Alfred Ofosu Ahenkorah, is the Executive Partner of Ahenkorah & Partners, Engineering and Energy Management Company. He is the immediate past Executive Secretary of the Energy Commission having served in that position from May 2005 until he retired from the Public Service close to the end of 2019. He holds an MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering (Internal Combustion Engines),  a PhD in Technical Sciences (Energy Efficiency) and an Executive Masters Degree in Business Administration (Finance).  

Dr Ahenkorah qualified as a research engineer in 1991 and has considerable experience in the practical application of engineering principles to problem solving. He joined the Technical Wing of the Ministry of Mines and Energy in 1992.  As a Consultant to the World Bank he was deeply involved in the Power Sector Reforms and was the Coordinator of the World Bank/ESMAP/UNDP Technical Assistance to Ghana (Phase 2) that, in 1994-95, assisted the Ghana Ministry of Mines & Energy to design the Electricity Demand Management Component of the Ghana Thermal Power Project. He performed similar tasks in Kenya and Tanzania. In 1998 he was appointed by the Ministry of Energy and the Private Enterprise Federation as the founding Executive Director of the Energy Foundation, a public-private sector initiative that was established to promote energy efficiency in Ghana.  

Before being invited in 2005 to head the Energy Commission, Dr Ahenkorah had been a Principal Programme Officer and an acting Chief Programmes Officer of the Ministry of Energy, Technical Wing. As a result of his extensive knowledge and experience in energy issues he  served on the boards of a number of prestigious international  public and private sector organisations that have been influential in promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy worldwide. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Collaborative Labelling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP), which is assisting developing countries design, implement and enforce energy efficiency performance standards and labels for appliances, equipment and lighting products, as a means of conserving energy and reducing global warming.  He spearheaded the introduction of appliance energy performance standards and labels, covering lighting, refrigerators and air conditioners  in 2005. The Appliance Standards and Labels programme in Ghana now covers 20 electrical appliances and woodfuel cookstoves. 

He was a founding member of the Governing Board and Deputy Chairperson of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) an international organization, based in Vienna, Austria that seeks to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency worldwide from 2002 till 2019. He also served as a member of the Governing Board of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) from 2005 to 2009 and a member of the Board that took GOIL from a loss-making company in 2001 to profitability and to the Ghana Stock Exchange in 2008. He was also a Board member of  ECG from 2013 to 2016.

Dr. Ahenkorah is currently a full time consultant and has been consulting for the African Development Bank on Electricity Regulatory frameworks for African countries since 2020. Some of his clients are the Energy Commission, Ministry of Energy, GIZ and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA.