Dignitaries in a group photograph after the launch
The 10th Ghana CEO Summit & Expo is scheduled for May 28, 2026, at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra, which will mark a significant decade of impact in the country’s business and policy landscape.
The theme for this milestone edition, “Accelerating Ghana’s Economic Transformation: Driving Bold Reforms through Leadership, Technology, and Industrialization for Sustainable Growth,” focuses on ten strategic pillars aimed at moving from policy formulation to measurable impact, including reform delivery, digital transformation, and sustainable growth.
The event will feature a Presidential Address, CEO-Government Dialogues, masterclasses, and the launch of the CEO-Government Compact 2026.
Speaking at the launch, Founder and Convenor of the Ghana CEO Summit & Expo, Ernest De-Graft Egyir, indicated that the summit stands as a national executive policy dialogue institution, bringing together government, industry, investors, development partners, and emerging leaders to accelerate private-sector-led growth and national competitiveness.
He noted that over the past decade, the summit has delivered measurable national impact across ten strategic pillars, including strengthening structured public–private dialogue, improving investment confidence and visibility, and advancing corporate governance and leadership standards.
Other areas include aligning fragmented policy and business priorities, strengthening executive decision-making culture, elevating Ghana’s investment diplomacy profile, supporting leadership transitions during economic cycles, amplifying national economic discourse through the media, inspiring emerging entrepreneurial leadership, and positioning Ghana as a regional hub for executive thought leadership.
Mr. De-Graft Egyir added that the summit will feature five core platforms, namely, an opening plenary session focused on execution, accountability, macroeconomic outlook, industrial strategy, and policy alignment; a CEO Business Case Panel offering real business leadership insights on resilience, competitiveness, innovation, and enterprise growth; and a Presidential CEOs Business Dialogue Session.
The high-level dialogue with the President of Ghana will also launch the CEO-Government Compact 2026, which aligns government and private sector priorities around industrialisation, technology adoption, investment competitiveness, governance modernisation, job creation, and enterprise growth. The compact is expected to serve as a structured bridge between policy and implementation.
Additionally, the summit will host the Ghana CEO Excellence Awards 2025/2026, which will honour leadership excellence across the public and private sectors, as well as a Business Expo session, a strategic marketplace for innovation, investment, industrial solutions, and enterprise partnerships driving Ghana’s economic transformation.
Chief Executive Officer of Margins Group, Moses Baiden Jnr, indicated that the summit offers leaders the opportunity to confront, with seriousness, the leadership, technology, and industrial choices that will shape the next phase of Ghana’s economic future.
“If we are serious about accelerating Ghana’s economic transformation, then leadership must mean preparedness. Technology must mean capability and resilience. Industrialisation must mean value addition and productive strength.
“And sustainable growth must mean not just expansion, but the ability to function, compete, and endure in a world that is becoming more fractured, more contested, and less predictable,” he said.
He invited business leaders, policymakers, industry actors, and all stakeholders to participate in the summit.
Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority, Edward Ekow Obeng-Kenzo, also described the summit as a critical platform for advancing leadership, technology, industrialisation, and corporate governance reforms.
Speaking in the context of the VRA’s 65th anniversary, he said the organisation has “remained resolute, consistent and reliable” in delivering power, and pledged its continued commitment to providing reliable electricity for all.
BY Prince Fiifi Yorke