Hon Martin Dwamena

His role was amongst others rendering on-the spot legal advice to the parliamentarians during parliament sessions.  Martin also advised His Majesty the King, the Prime Minister and the Government of Swaziland. 

Martin holds an L.L.B. Degree Hons. from the University of London and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (U.K).  He was called to the Bar at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple as a Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1974.   Martin was also admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Ghana in 1975, Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia (1986) and Attorney-at-Law of the High Court of Swaziland in 1984.

In September 2001, Martin was appointed by His Excellency the President of Ghana to a nine-member Board of the Minerals Commission of Ghana which has the responsibility for the regulation and management of the utilization of the mineral resources of Ghana and the co-ordination of the polices in relation to them.  On 11th May 2006 Martin was appointed the Chairman of the Hospital Advisory Board of the Fanteakwa District Hospital at Begoro in the Eastern Region of the Republic of Ghana.  He was also nominated as the local representative of USDFA in May 2007 and appointed Executive Chairman and CEO of US Doctors For Africa (USDFA) Mobile Clinic Project in Ghana in November 2007.  Martin was nominated a member of the board of GHAPEJUSO proactive rights activist organisation affiliated to the UN Commission on Human Rights (U.N. Human Rights Council) on the 1st of January 2008.

Martin has held various senior positions in industry.  From 1961 to 1979 he served in various capacities as Company Secretary, Secretary Legal Adviser, and Secretary & Director of Administration respectively at the Cocoa Marketing Company (Ghana) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board.  Amongst the numerous roles and responsibilities, in 1963 whiles employed by the Cocoa Marketing Company (Ghana) Limited, Martin served as Secretary to the Ghana delegation to the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva to discuss the world cocoa price with other members of the International Cocoa and Coffee Organisation.  In 1975, Martin was also a member of a three-man delegation which toured Washington, U.S.A., Holland and Germany to hold discussions with state officials and leading members of chocolate manufacturers, as a prelude to a subsequent international cocoa conference to discuss the world cocoa price.