Search OpenSanctions

Matthew Opoku Prempeh

Politician

Matthew Opoku Prempeh 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	Mathew Opoku PREMPEH · Matthew Opoku Prempeh · Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Dr.) · ماثيو اوبوكو بريمبه				[sources]
Other name	Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh · Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh · Matthew Opoku Prempeh				[sources]
Weak alias	NAPO				[sources]
Birth date	1968-05-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Ashanti Region				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ghana				[sources]
Country	Ghana				[sources]
Citizenship	Ghana				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Matthew				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q28677017				[sources]
Position	Member of the 5th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2009-2013) · Member of the 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2013-2017) · Member of the 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2017-2021) · Member of the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2021-) · Minister for Education (2017-2021) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Harvard University · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences · Prempeh College				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Ghanaian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Energy and Petroleum	2021-01-21	-

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
John Kufuor Politician	nephew · relative · uncle	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,874

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,326

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

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,099

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

Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,019

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States of America · CIA

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,079

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,563

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

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-ghana-mathew-opoku-prempeh-minister-of-energy · evpo-625a6d15-0e0c-4ad3-977c-667c0bd2734a · us-cia-ghana-mathew-opoku-prempeh-min-of-education

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk