Liberia

Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan

Minister of Finance

Career: Director, Bureau of Budgets, 2006-08; Minister of Finance, 2008 to date.

Commentary: In his capacity as Liberia's Minister of Finance, Augustine Ngafuan has said that Liberia's growth plans have been held back by huge losses in the rubber trade in 2009 and 2010. In 2007, as Budget Director General, he was one of the team, along with then Finance Minister Antoinette Sayeh and Minister in the Presidency Morris Saytumah, coordinating the government's defence in the Charles Bryant corruption case.