John Akuoko-Tawiah
KPMG Africa
John is an Associate Director for Africa in the Sustainable Finance Advisory Services at KPMG. He has over 14 years of expertise in Commercial Banking, Management, Institutional Reform Consulting, and Development Finance. He previously served as the Head of ESG, Sustainability, and Climate Finance at a leading Development Finance Institution (DFI) in Ghana. In this role, he was instrumental in establishing the bank under the World Bank-funded initiative, where he led the unit and supported due diligence processes for financial institutions. He also designed and developed innovative and sustainable finance solutions and technical assistance initiatives. Prior to this, John held various roles in commercial banking, where he was a credit processing officer, credit Monitoring Analyst, operational risk analyst and policy and product review analyst. He designed monitoring and evaluation frameworks, set up ESG systems and executed market development projects.
