Margaret Boateng Sekyere

Margaret Boateng Sekyere
Board Chair, Societe Generale Ghana

Margaret Boateng Sekyere is an accomplished businesswoman with over three decades of experience in both the private and public sectors. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for Societe Generale Ghana, a position she has held since October 2020.

Mrs Sekyere’s professional journey began in the United States, where she worked in Public Accounting and Mortgage Banking from 1985 to 1992. Upon returning to Ghana, she worked as a Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse with a special focus on Financial Management Reviews and Assessments of donor funding to public sector institutions. Mrs Sekyere holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Accounting) and an MBA, both from Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Mrs Sekyere’s extensive experience in public sector reform led her to manage a five-year Public Sector Program funded by the World Bank in Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1997. From 1998 to 2003, she served as the Senior Resource Management Officer of the World Bank Office in Ghana, where she managed administrative services, the accounting team, and staff training, among other responsibilities. Additionally, she played a key role in coaching and developing newly recruited resource management staff for the World Bank Country Offices in several African countries.

From 2004 to 2007, Mrs Sekyere played a crucial role in major public sector reform initiatives in Ghana under the leadership of the Senior Minister and the Minister for Public Sector Reforms. Her key accomplishment during this period was in the preparatory arrangements for the Government of Ghana (GoG) to obtain approval from the Board of Directors of the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for approximately USD 547 million for GoG’s anti-poverty campaign.

Mrs Sekyere has also had an impressive career in finance and investment. From 2013 to 2018, she served as the Executive Director of Finance & Administration at Belstar Capital Limited, where she ensured full compliance with all financial regulatory matters as a Licensed Investment Advisory Representative of Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission. Before that, she was a partner in Oak Partners Limited, an asset management company that specialized in financial solutions for the real estate industry.

Margaret Boateng Sekyere is ranked in Avance Media’s Inaugural list of Top 100 Ghana’s Women Board Directors collated in partnership with Acreaty Ghana.