Ishmael Yamson & Associates
   2ND Floor J B PLAZA,
   ACHIMOTA-GIMPA RD. (KISSEMAN JUNCTION)
   P.O. Box 3260
   Accra, Ghana
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Mr Ishmael Yamson Mr. Ishmael Yamson is the Founder and CEO of Yamson & Associates, a Business Development Consulting firm. He is also the non-executive Chairman of both Unilever Ghana Limited and Standard Chartered Bank, Ghana Limited. Mr. Yamson was the CEO of Unilever Ghana Limited for 18 years. During his tenure he transformed the company from a conglomerate business with interests in trading, power generation, motors, textiles, and brewing, into a focused, fast moving consumer goods company with backward integration into major raw materials on an alliance basis. He is now a founding and council member of the Centre for Policy Analysis and the Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Commonwealth Business Council.
Mr. Yamson has also served as President of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, President of the Ghana Employers’ Association and founding member and President of the Private Enterprise Foundation.

Mr Ishmael Yamson Prior to becoming Chief Executive for Unilever Ghana, Mr. Yamson spent 20 years working in senior management of Unilever companies in the UK, Holland and Africa. He held positions that include Chief Executive of Ghana Textile Printing/Juapong Textiles and of Gailey & Roberts in Tanzania, and Marketing Executive for the Kumasi Brewery and for Bird’s Eye Walls in the UK. He has a BSc. in Economics from the University of Ghana. He is married to Lucy with 5 children. As a renowned leader and Chief Executive, Ishmael Yamson has received numerous local and international awards. Some of his honors include the Order of the Volta (Civil Division), Fellow of both the Ghana Institute of Marketing and Institute of Management,
an Honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Ghana, Member of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Conference, and Honorary Member for the Global Coalition for Africa.
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The Chairman of Unilever, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has identified poor governance as the leading contributory factor for Africa's retrogression. He said poor performance by African governments in accountability, transparency, predictability and participation was the bane of the continent's development and progress.

Mr Yamson, therefore, proposed major changes to reverse the trend and the adoption of strategic approaches to Africa’s development by its political leaders.

He was presenting a paper on the topic, "Consolidating Political Stability in Africa for Accelerated Growth":

Possible Initiatives/Role of the Business Sector in Consolidating Political Stability", in the first ever Daily Graphic Accra Governance Dialogue in Accra yesterday.

Mr Yamson challenged governments in Africa to grow out of the tendency of becoming preoccupied with short-term problems and short-term strategies and stressed the need for them to think in the long term and act with the strategic objectives of their countries in view in order to realise the benefits of good governance.

Linking good governance to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated regional and continental integration, he admitted the difficulty in getting good governments on the continent.

That, according to him, was because adherence to the principles of good governance was not robust.

Addressing the factors which drove good governance, Mr Yamson listed nine inclusive principles as important for Africa’s efforts at building and sustaining political stability.

"African leadership with integrity and trust, the capacity and ability to design, own and deliver sound and transformational economic policies, credibility, democracy and culture, as well as integrity, are drivers of good governance," he said.