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Shirley Ayorkor Botchway

Politician

Shirley Ayorkor Botchway 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	Shirley A. Botchway(Ms) · Shirley Ayorkor Botchway · Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey · Ширлі Айоркор Ботчвей · シャーリー・アヨルコル・ボッチウェイ · 1 more...				[sources]
Alias	Shirley Ayorkor Botchway · シャーリー・アヨルコル・ボッチウェイ				[sources]
Weak alias	シェリ・アヨコー・ボチュウェイ · 博奇韦				[sources]
Birth date	1963-02-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Accra				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Ghana				[sources]
Country	Ghana				[sources]
Citizenship	Ghana				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Shirley				[sources]
Last name	Botchway				[sources]
Political association	New Patriotic Party				[sources]
Website	ayorkorbotchwey.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q26923626				[sources]
Position	Commonwealth Secretary-General (2025-) · 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 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2013-) · Member of the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2017-) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration · St Mary's Senior High School · St Marys Senior High School · University of Ghana Business School · University of London · 6 more...				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-27	Last processed	2025-12-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Ghanaian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-08-26

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of Parliament	2013-01-07	2017-01-06
Member of the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,331

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-ghana-shirley-ayorkor-botchwey-minister-of-foreign-affairs-regional-integration · evpo-fcb61d15-c164-474f-9890-4165c6b4b8b1

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