Tei Mante

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Tei Mensa Mante, born July 22, 1949, in Accra, Ghana, is a prominent Ghanaian investment banker. He studied at Accra Academy, earned a BSc in Administration from the University of Ghana in 1971, and completed an MBA in international finance at Columbia University (1973–75); he also studied at INSEAD in France. He began his career at the World Bank Group in 1975 as a project manager and joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 1983. At the IFC, he became Director of the Sub-Saharan Africa Department in 1993 and later Director of the Agribusiness Department in 1997. He left the World Bank Group in 2000. In 2001, he became a special advisor to Ghana’s economic management team under President Kufuor, serving through 2005. He was chairman of Ecobank Ghana from 2006 to 2010, helping shift the bank toward more retail banking. In 2014 he joined Ecobank Transnational as a non-executive director, later serving as vice-chairman, and retired in 2020. He has served on several investment committees, including the Pan-African Investment Partners (2002–2010) and is a current member of the investment committee for the West Africa Emerging Market Growth Fund.