Dr George Agyekum DONKOR
President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Dr. George Agyekum Donkor is the President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), and the Chairman of the Board of Directors. EBID is a regional international financial institution owned by the fifteen (15) ECOWAS Member States.
Dr. Donkor had previously held the position of Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Services, for seven (7) years and prior to that, Head of Legal Division/Compliance for four (4) years of the same institution. His professional areas of interest include corporate law, leadership, change management, and improvement.
A lawyer by profession and a development banker by training, Dr. Donkor’s illustrious career, which spans over three decades, has been marked with outstanding success. He focuses on implementing change to drive progress not only in the West African sub-region but also to stimulate a wider international impact through regional integration and engagement.
Under his visionary leadership, EBID has been achieving a wide range of remarkable success, which includes an upgrade of the Bank’s credit rating by Moody’s and Fitch Ratings, securing Green Climate Fund accreditation, and earning the historic position as the first development finance institution to issue a Green, Social and Sustainable Bond Listing on one of Africa’s most vibrant regional stock exchanges, Bourse de Valeurs Regional (BRVM) in 2024.
The Bank has also won numerous awards, including “2024 Financial Institution of the Year” at the Africa Sustainability Awards and also the “Most Innovative Operation” for the year 2025 at the BRVM Awards.
Dr. Donkor holds numerous academic qualifications, including a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) and a Master of Applied Business Research (MABR) degree, both from the SBS Swiss Business School, Zurich, Switzerland. He also holds an Executive MBA from the University of Ghana, Legon.
He is a Council Member of the University of Ghana and former Chairman of the Investment Committee of the University Council. He is also a Board member of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), ASKY Airlines, and WAICA Re-Insurance, among others. He is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Finance at the School of Business of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana. He is also a Visiting Faculty at the Regent University of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana.
Dr. Donkor has been recognised with many awards, notable among which are the 2025 CEO of CEOs (Ghana CEO Vision and Awards), twice the winner of the CEO of the year -Africa 2025 & 2023 (Ghana CEO Vision and Awards), 2023 Development Champion Award, at the Rebranding African Forum, Brussels, Belgium, 2022 Prix de la Foundation award at the prestigious Crans Montana Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, and Ghana Innovation Leadership Award in 2019. His name has been featured four consecutive times among the 100 personalities transforming Africa by Financial Afrik, a renowned international magazine.
Dr Donkor is the Chancellor of the NiBS University, Ghana. He is also the current Honorary President of the Global Network for Export-Import Banks and Development Finance Institutions (G-NEXID), which is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.