Nii Moi Thompson

Dr. Nii Moi Thompson is a Ghanaian economist and development officer. In 2013, he was appointed the Directo-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) of Ghana and subsequently became its chairman in 2025. He also doubles as the senior advisor to the president on SDGS, Ghana.^[1][2][3]

Thompson was born in Bantama in the Ashanti Region to Isaac Bannerman Nii Moi Thompson Snr. and Madam Esther Adoley Allotey. He later left for Liberia and Sierra Leone to pursue his senior high school education. He later obtained his first degree in General Economics from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College) and then later to University at Albany, SUNY for his Masters in International Economics. He again obtained a doctorate in Development Economics and Public Policy from the University of Pittsburgh.^{[4] [5]}