Hon. Stephen Asamoah Boateng

Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs.

Hon. Stephen Asamoah Boateng is a Ghanaian politician and the newly appointed Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs. He was the former Director-General of the State Interest and Governance Authority (SIGA). He was also a former member of parliament for the Mfantsiman West constituency of the Central region of Ghana and also the former Minister for Local Government Rural Development and Environment, Tourism, and Diaspora Relations. Stephen Asamoah Boateng holds a Degree from the University of Ghana and a master’s in Business Administration from the Henley Management College Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. While studying for his Masters’s, he worked as a Marketing Consultant at the American Medical Systems (AMS) of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and a Housing Officer at the Royal Borough of Kensington, Chelsea. He was a public servant as a store assistant at the Ghana Medical Stores in Kumasi. He started out as a political activist and then became the president of the Madina Students Union and the secretary of the Central Committee of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) from 1979 to 1982. Stephen Asamoah Boateng is a former member of parliament for the Mfantseman Constituency. He won the parliament seat in the year 2004 after he contested in the general elections.