Ghana’s political stability, credibility, and predictability are the country’s most powerful tools for attracting global investment, Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States has told a high-level gathering of business leaders and investors in Atlanta.
Ambassador Victor Emmanuel Smith led the Economic Dialogue in Atlanta, bringing together investors, entrepreneurs, and development stakeholders to explore partnership opportunities between Ghana and the United States.
He pointed to natural areas of alignment between the two countries, including aviation, logistics, agriculture, fintech, manufacturing, education, and the creative economy, saying Atlanta’s world-class aviation ecosystem made it a natural partner for Ghana’s goal of becoming West Africa’s preferred transportation hub.
Ambassador Smith described the Ghanaian diaspora in the United States as one of Ghana’s most valuable assets in building economic bridges with America.
“Diasporas understand both systems. They understand Ghana and they understand America.
“They can therefore serve as bridges of trust, culture, investment and innovation,” he said.
The dialogue produced a concrete outcome.
On his part, the founder of JNN Group Inc. and General Partner of the African Diaspora Venture Fund Jacques Nack Ngue, announced a $40 million investment initiative targeting enterprise development across Africa, starting with Ghana.
The fund focuses on fintech, agricultural innovation, and workforce transformation, with a direct emphasis on reaching farmers and agricultural workers at the grassroots level.
Mr Ngue said Ghana’s democratic track record and peaceful transitions of power were exactly what serious global capital was searching for.
“Stability is the new alpha. Ghana offers exactly what global capital is now searching for, peaceful rule, democratic governance, and peaceful transitions,” he added.
One of the fund’s portfolio companies, Quantum, has already enrolled more than 167,000 agricultural and forestry workers across Africa, giving a sense of the fund’s operational reach.
Ghana’s energy sector was also on the agenda. Nana Brew-Butler of Cen Power Generation Company told the gathering that the company had succeeded in attracting investors from across the world, with 68 percent of ownership now held by Africans.
The company supplies about 12 percent of Ghana’s dependable power and serves more than one million households. Brew-Butler said recent engagements with the current administration had restored confidence in the sector after earlier challenges with utility arrears.
The dialogue ended with fresh commitments to deepen Ghana-United States business ties and build practical frameworks for turning investment conversations into measurable development outcomes.
Mrs Ethel Cudjoe Amissah, ISD
Washington, USA
