Kwaku Boateng is an Energy Economist and Academician with over 25 years senior management & leadership experience in the oil and gas industry and proven record of Oil and Gas Project Management, Regulation and Energy Policy formulation and Teaching and Research. He has an excellent knowledge of commercial, policy and regulatory issues in the sector. 

Currently, he is a Director for Economics & Local Content at the Petroleum Commission. He was a member of the Project Implementation Committee that set up Ghana National Gas Company and prepared the Project Execution Strategy for Natural Gas Project. He later worked with that company as a Senior Manager for Gas Commercialization and Business Development. 

He also worked at BOST as the Head of Natural Gas Division, responsible for the company’s natural gas business development. Before joining BOST, Mr. Boateng worked with the Ministry of Energy as Head Petroleum Upstream and later acted as the Director Petroleum responsible for both upstream and downstream operations. 

As a member of the Core team, Mr, Boateng took part in the preparation of important policy and legislative documents including: National Energy Policy, Gas Pricing Policy, Petroleum Revenue Management Regulations, Local Content Policy, Local Content Regulations and Oil & Gas EITI and negotiation of West African Gas Pipeline Project and prepared several project agreements including the WAGP Treaty, IPA and WAGP Regulations. He was a member of the Core Team that developed Petroleum Exploration & Production) Act, 2016, Act 919.  Mr. Boateng was also the Lead Consultant that put in place Local Content Regulatory Regime for the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

He also has several years of teaching and research experience in some academic institutions such as Helsinki School of Economics, South West Business School, Rasio, Finland, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, where he taught as a full time lecturer.