Mr. Alexander Agambilla Awine
Non Executive Director
Alexander Agambilla Awine is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Public Financial Accountant, a Chartered Energy Economist, and a chartered Petroleum Economist. He is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG), the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) UK, the Association of Certified Chartered Economists (ACCE Global), and a fellow of the Global Academy of Finance Management.
He holds a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from Coventry University and Post Chartered Diplomas in petroleum Accountancy, Forensic Auditing, Public Financial Management, and Cyber Security, all from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana.
Alexander Agambilla Awine currently holds the position of Accountant— Financial Reporting with additional responsibility as Finance Controller, payroll audit and Budgeting—at the ECOWAS Court of Justice. Before this role, he was the acting Director of Finance at the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), from January 2023 to February 2024, having served as the Deputy Director of Finance—Budget, Financial Reporting and Treasury—from January 2021 to January 2023.
He also served as the Deputy Director of Finance at SADA/NDA from November 2015 to January 2021. From September 2007 to November 2015, he was the Principal Accounting Assistant/Faculty Accountant at the University for Development Studies (UDS) and the Finance and Administration Manager at Sekaf Ghana Ltd from March 2006 to September 2007.
He is a Public Financial Management Professional with 19 years of experience, with nine of those years in senior management positions. He played leadings role in restructuring and designing the internal controls of the Finance Directorates of the then Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), now the Northern Development Authority (NDA), and at the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA). Alexander designed the internal control systems of SADA, which led to its upgrading from high risk to low risk by UNDP. He provided leadership and oversight of finance and operational functions, including the development of a Medium-Term Development Plan, the development of Procedures and Accounting Policy Manuals, Annual Work Plan, budgeting and Budgetary controls, grants management, audits, internal control design and implementation, and preparation of Financial Reports in compliance with IPSAS and IFRS over the years.
He played a lead role in the preparation and audit of the financial statements of the Divestiture Implementation Committee and SIGA, which were in arrears for ten years.
He has vast knowledge of the operations of State-Owned Enterprises across sectors in Ghana. He led the SIGA team on several occasions to supervise the financial and operational performances of energy and financial sector entities. He played pivotal role in overseeing the reviews of Strategic Plans, Annual Workplans, budgets and financial analysis of Specified entities. He also supervised the appraisal of entities for the submission of Letters of No Objection to the Ministry of Finance on requests for government support or loan facilities by the Specified Entities.
He was a key member of the technical team that conducted Annual Performance Contract Negotiation with Specified Entities, and his broad knowledge across sectors was always useful during the negotiation exercise.
In 2022, he served on the Presidential Assignment Committee on Audit Infractions, a joint committee of SIGA and the Auditor General’s Office, which investigated the increasing cases of audit infractions within SOEs, public boards, and authorities. He brought his broad knowledge of Public Finance auditing matters to bear during the committee's work.
He was a member of the Technical Committee that drafted technical notes for the implementation of the World Bank Programme on Public Financial Management (PforR).
Alexander Agambilla Awine has managed donor funds from AFD, USAID, UNICEF, USDA, and UNDP over the years.