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Joseph Kofi Adda

Politician

Joseph Kofi Adda is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Joseph Kofi Adda				[sources]
Alias	Joseph Kofi Kowe Adda				[sources]
Birth date	1956-04-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Navrongo				[sources]
Death date	2021-10-14				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ghana				[sources]
Country	Ghana				[sources]
Citizenship	Ghana				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Joseph				[sources]
Political association	New Patriotic Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1451907				[sources]
Position	Member of the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2005-2009) · Member of the 5th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2009-2013) · Member of the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2017-) · Parliament (member, 2017-)				[sources]
Education	Columbia University · Indiana Wesleyan University · Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV · School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University · University of Paris · 1 more...				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Financial Economist, Management Consultant, politician and minister in Ghana government

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of Parliament	-	-
Member of the 5th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana	2009-01-07	2013-01-06

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,362

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,490

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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