Daniel Yaw Domelevo
Daniel Yaw Domelevo is a Ghanaian accountant who currently serves as Auditor-General of Ghana. He was appointed by John Dramani Mahama in 2016 to replace Richard Quartei Quartey who had retired from Public service. He won the 2019 Integrity Personality Award at the 2019 Ghana Integrity Initiative awards. Education. Domelevo holds an Executive master's degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Ghana Business School. He trained as a chartered accountant and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) since 1993. Career. Early career. Domelevo is a trained accountant by  profession and served in senior staff roles at the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (Ghana) for 18 years. He is a Public Financial Management Expert, he worked at the World Bank as a Senior Financial Management Specialist responsible for Public Financial Management projects in Zimbabwe and Malawi. He also served as the Chief Accountant for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (now TV3). Auditor-General of Ghana. In 2016, he was appointed by President John Mahama to serve as Auditor-General of Ghana. In his role as Auditor-General of the  country, he also served as keynote speaker for public lectures on auditing, corruption and issues relating to management of finances On 20 September 2018, he was the keynote speaker at the 3rd Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Memorial Lecture. He spoke on the theme “"Protecting The Public Purse- Keeping the gate shut before the horse bolts"” in memory of the late Finance Minister. Domelevo Accountability lectures. In 2021, The Centre for Social Democracy and Friedrech Elbert Stiftung Foundation in recognition of his role as the Auditor-General of Ghana in ensuring transparency and accountability for public resources launched an annual lecture named  Domelevo Accountability Lectures. The lecture for 2021, which is the first one, was held on 1 July 2021 at the Teachers Hall in Accra. Personal life. Domelevo is a Christian who is a devout Roman Catholic. Honours and awards. On 9 December 2019, Domelevo won the Integrity Personality Award at the maiden Integrity awards ceremony organised by Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), contending against Manasseh Azure Awuni, a freelance investigative journalist; Edward Sowah Adjetey, an engineer at the State Housing Company Limited Ato Ulzen-Appiah, the Director of the Ghana Think Foundation, a civil society organisation, and David Boateng Asante, the  managing director of the Ghana Publishing Company. Other awards received by Mr Domelevo include; (i) Distinguished Public Service Leadership Award 2020- by Centre for Social Justice Ghana and IMANI Ghana (ii)Heroes Honor (Paragon of virtue Honors) – by Pan African Heroes Foundation (iii) Ghanaian Leader of the year 2019: by Ghana leadership Awards; (iii) 2019 Prestige Award Winner for Transformational Leadership in Public Service:- by National Union of Ghanaian Students.