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Gloria Nikoi
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As of 2007, she is the only lady to hold this position. She is also a career diplomat. In addition, she is the widow of Doctor Amon Nikoi, a former governor of the Bank of Ghana and also a former finance minister.
Nikoi was the Deputy Chief of Mission to the United Nations from 1969 to 1974.
Gloria Nikoi later worked as a senior official in the Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After the military coup of June 4, 1979 which overthrew the Supreme Military Council government, she was made foreign minister for about four months in the AFRC government of Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
This ended on September 24, 1979, when the Third Republic under Doctor Hilla Limann"s People"s National Party government was inaugurated. Gloria Nikoi became the Chairperson of the Bank for Housing and Construction, a Ghanaian bank, in 1981.
She has also been a director of the African Development Bank (Asian Development Bank).
She was the first Chairperson of the Council of the Ghana Stock Exchange when it was first inaugurated on November 12, 1990.
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People"s National Party