229:(Afreximbank) in March 1994. He served as a Chief Analyst from 1994 until he was promoted to the position of Assistant Director in 1998 and then to Deputy Director in 2001. He became the substantive Director of the Planning and Business Development Department in 2004 and the Senior Director in 2007. In 2008, Oramah was appointed Executive Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Banking.
257:(PAPSS), the current chairman of the Executive Committee of the Arab-Africa Trade Bridges (AATB), the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the African Union Covid-19 Response Fund, Board member of the Sustainable Development Goals Centre for Africa (SDGCA), and serves on the Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy of the
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Directors of the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the chairman of the Management Board of Directors of the
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magazine for multiple years since 2017. He also holds honorary doctorates from the
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before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in
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honoured him with the award of Knight of the National Order.
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