President Mahama appoints Dr. Oliver-Kevor as Acting Director General of NiTA

Dr. Mark Oliver-Kevor has been named the National Information Technology Agency’s (NiTA) acting director general by President John Dramani Mahama.

Richard Okyere-Fosu, who was appointed by the former Akufo-Addo administration, is replaced by him.

Dr. Oliver-Kevor is a senior lecturer at Presbyterian University’s Faculty of Science and Technology in Ghana and the current Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He has been a lecturer for almost 20 years, and his areas of interest in research are information security, telecommunications, ICT and SME studies, and knowledge management systems.

In the first administration of President Mahama, he was a member of the National Communications Authority board and also served as Ghana’s government expert on international information security at the UN.

Dr. Oliver-Kevor has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), a Master of Science in ICT and Management, and a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Ghana.

He guided St. Peter’s Boys Secondary School to the Brilliant Science and Maths Quiz semi-finals in 1999.