The President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr Albert Antwi-Boasiako as the Acting Director-General of the Cyber Security Authority (CSA) effective October 1, 2021.
Prior to this appointment, he served as the National Cyber Security Advisor and Head of the Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), leading Ghana’s institutionalisation of cybersecurity under the policy direction of the Minister for Communications & Digitalisation, Hon Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, who is responsible for cybersecurity matters in government.
Dr Antwi-Boasiako has led, the revision of Ghana’s National Cybersecurity Policy & Strategy (NCPS) and the development and passage of Ghana’s Cybersecurity Act 2020 (Act 1038), two enabling interventions that constitute the anchors of Ghana’s cybersecurity development.
In his role as Advisor to Government and the Head of the NCSC, Ghana acceded to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), ratified the African Union Convention on Cyber Security & Personal Data Protection, launched Ghana’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Programme (Safer Digital Ghana) and established Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Points of Contact which has allowed the public to report cybercrime and cybersecurity incidents.
