Office: | Auditor-General of Ghana |
Term Start: | December 2016 |
Term End: | March 2021 |
Predecessor: | Richard Quartei Quartey |
Successor: | Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Alma Mater: | University of Ghana Business School |
Occupation: | Chartered accountant |
Appointer: | John Dramani Mahama |
Daniel Yaw Domelevo is a Ghanaian accountant who currently serves as a Board member of the Global Fund. He is a former Auditor-General of Ghana.[1] He was appointed by John Dramani Mahama in 2016 to replace Richard Quartei Quartey who had retired from Public service.[2] [3] He won the 2019 Integrity Personality Award at the 2019 Ghana Integrity Initiative awards.[4] [5]
Domelevo holds an Executive master's degree in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Ghana Business School. He trained as a chartered accountant and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) since 1993.
Domelevo is a trained accountant by profession and served in senior staff roles at the Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (Ghana) for 18 years.[6] From January 2010 to December 2016, he was the Public Financial Management Expert of the World Bank and served as the Senior Financial Management Specialist responsible for Public Financial Management projects in Zimbabwe and Malawi. He also served as the Chief Accountant for the Ghana Film Industry Corporation (now TV3).
In 2016, he was appointed by President John Mahama to serve as Auditor-General of Ghana.[3] In his role as Auditor-General of the country, he also served as keynote speaker for public lectures on auditing, corruption and issues relating to management of finances [7] [8] [9] On 20 September 2018, he was the keynote speaker at the 3rd Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Memorial Lecture. He spoke on the theme “Protecting The Public Purse- Keeping the gate shut before the horse bolts” in memory of the late Finance Minister.[10]
In 2021, The Centre for Social Democracy and Friedrech Elbert Stiftung Foundation in recognition of his role as the Auditor-General of Ghana in ensuring transparency and accountability for public resources launched an annual lecture named Domelevo Accountability Lectures. The inaugural lecture was held on 1 July 2021 at the Teachers Hall in Accra.[11]
On 4th May 2022, he was approved and appointed as a board member of the Global Fund representing West and Central Africa.[12] [13] Together with eleven(11) others, he is serving on the Audit and Finance Committee and will be voting on issues brought before the board.
Domelevo is a Christian who is a devout Roman Catholic.[14] [15]
On 9 December 2019, Domelevo won the Integrity Personality Award at the maiden Integrity awards ceremony organised by Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), contending against Manasseh Azure Awuni, a freelance investigative journalist; Edward Sowah Adjetey, an engineer at the State Housing Company Limited Ato Ulzen-Appiah, the Director of the Ghana Think Foundation, a civil society organisation, and David Boateng Asante, the managing director of the Ghana Publishing Company.[16]
Other awards received by Domelevo include;