Matthew Opoku Prempeh was born on May 23, 1968, in Ashanti New Town, a suburb of Kumasi, and hails from Pakyi No. 2 in the Ashanti Region.
He started his basic education at KNUST Primary and continued to Prempeh College in Kumasi, Ashanti Region of Ghana, for his middle school education.
He studied Human Biology and Medicine at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and completed his Medicinae Baccalaureus (Latin for Bachelor of Medicine) and Chirurgiae Baccalaureus (Latin for Bachelor of Surgery) in 1994.
He continued with post-graduate studies in MSc. Clinical Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences in 1998 and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he studied Leadership and Governance (certificate course). In 2002, he pursued postgraduate training in surgery in the UK (MRCS).
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Before entering parliament, Prempeh served as CEO of Keyedmap Security Services Limited from 2004 to 2009. He is also a medical doctor and served as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2003.
Prempeh currently serves as Manhyia South Member of Parliament in Kumasi. He was first elected in 2008. In 2016, he was re-elected with 35,958 votes or 87.17% of the votes cast in the constituency.
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He is a member of the Defence and Interior Committee and the Appointments Committee. Prempeh contested the 2020 Ghanaian general election as a parliamentary candidate for the Manhyia South constituency under the banner of the New Patriotic Party and won.
He was appointed by President Nana Akufo-Addo on January 10, 2017, to serve as Minister for Education in Ghana. He served in that role for 4 years until 6 January 2021.
In May 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo named Prempeh as one of the nineteen ministers who would form his cabinet. As a Cabinet minister, Prempeh was part of the inner circle of the president and was to aid in key decision-making activities in the country.
In 2021, the President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo-Addo, after being re-elected as President, named Dr. Mattew Opoku Prempeh as Minister of Energy.
In May 2021, the University of Education Winneba conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate Degree, in July 2021, the University of Professional Studies also awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
The University of Cape Coast also recognized Dr. Prempeh’s contributions to the development of Ghana and his immense service to the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
This profile will be updated from time to time.
