Search OpenSanctions

Eric Opoku

PEP · Politician

Eric Opoku 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	Eric Opoku				[sources]
Birth date	1970-06-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Brong-Ahafo Region				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Ghana				[sources]
Citizenship	Ghana				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Eric				[sources]
Last name	Opoku				[sources]
Political association	National Democratic Congress				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q61694726				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Member of the 4th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2005-2009) · 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-) · Member of the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2021-) · Minister of Food & Agriculture · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-14	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Ghanaian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of Parliament	-	-
Member of the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana	2021-01-07	-

Data sources

US CIA World Leaders10,967

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

United States · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons282,564

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

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 Categories350,779

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

Wikidata337,028

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions545,253

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-a3622dd1-34ae-4ae9-a3e5-e8b7815f7f5c · us-cia-ghana-eric-opoku-minister-of-food-agriculture

For experts: raw data explorer

Using the API

This page is sourced from our API service. Sign up for an API key and authenticate your request.

We recommend using the /match API function when implementing a screening system.

Equivalent request

GET https://api.opensanctions.org/entities/Q61694726?nested=true

Read about the nested format.

Factsheet Descriptions Relationships 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