Albert Kan-Dapaah

He attended Acherensua Secondary School from 1964 to 1969 and proceeded to the Institute of Professional Studies to study Accountancy.

 In 1975, Kan-Dapaah enrolled at the North East London Polytechnic, London, and then to the Emile Woolf College of Accountancy, where he obtained qualifications in Accountancy.

Kan-Dapaah has held several positions in private firms and public institutions since 1978. He served as an Audit Senior with Pannel Kerr Forster, a chartered accounting firm, and was transferred to its Monrovia and London offices between 1978 and 1986.

In January 1987, he was the Head of Audit, Social Security, and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).

He joined the Electricity of Company Ghana as Director of Audit in September 1987 and rose to become the Director of Finance, a position that he occupied for six years. 

Albert Kan-Dapaah was the Ashanti Regional Representative on the National Council of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a member of the Finance and Economic Affairs Committee of the NPP between 1992 and 1996.

In 1996, he was elected as the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana, as well as the Vice-President, Association of Accountancy Bodies in West Africa.

Albert Kan-Dpaah has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Afigya Sekyere West Constituency since January 1997.

Kan-Dapaah was elected as the member of parliament for the Afigya-Sekyere West constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the third time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections.

Albert Kan-Dapaah became Minister for Energy in the Kufuor government after the NPP won power in the 2000 elections.

During the April 2003 cabinet reshuffle, he became the Minister for Communications and Technology. He became the Minister for Interior during Kufuor's second term.

In 2008 Kan-Dapaah became chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament when the New Patriotic Party lost power.

On 15 January 2020, a video of a flirtatious WhatsApp video call between Albert Kan-Dapaah and a young woman popped up on social media leading to several calls for his resignation from the position as National Security Minister.