Andrews Kwame Pianim shahararren masanin tattalin arziƙin kasuwancin Ghana ne kuma mai ba da shawara kan saka hannun jari. Bayan shekaru goma a matsayin fursunonin siyasa, ya yi takara a 1996 don tsayawa takarar shugabancin Ghana. Sauya giya, ya sami nasara a matsayin ɗan kasuwa a Accra. Kwame Pianim ya halarci Makarantar Achimota don karatun sakandare. Yana rike da B.A. Darajoji Biyu a Tattalin Arziki da Kimiyyar Siyasa daga Jami'ar New Brunswick, Kanada (1963) da MA a Tattalin Arziki daga Jami'ar Yale (1964), Amurka. Ya auri wata mata 'yar kasar Holland mai suna Cornelia Pianim. Theiransu ƙaramin ɗansu Elkin Kwesi Pianim (an haife shi a shekara ta 1970), Kwalejin Vassar ta horar da mai ba da kuɗi na kamfani, ta auri babbar jaridar watsa labarai ta duniya Elisabeth Murdoch; Kwame Pianim yana da jikoki biyu na Rupert Murdoch, wato Cornelia da Anna Pianim. An kama shi tare da gungun sojoji ciki har da Sgt. Akata Pore a ranar 23 ga Nuwamban 1982 bayan kwace wani bangare na Barikin Barikin Gondar, Sansanin Burma a cikin wani yunƙurin juyin mulkin da ya ɓace.