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Kofi Otutu Adu Labi is a lawyer, management consultant and author. He is also a Church Elder, teacher and preacher.

He was educated at Ofori Panin, Achimota School, University of Ghana and the University of Bradford School of Management. He also studied at the International Law Institute (Washington DC), the Cranfield School of Management and London Business School. He is an alumnus of the Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership, Hawaii.

He served as Advisor under two Governors of the Bank of Ghana (Dr Paul Acquah and Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur). He started his banking career at the then SSB Bank (now Societé Generale Ghana) as a pioneering staff in 1976 and was the founding head of the Legal Department, before rising to the position of General Manager.

He is a Director of the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation (GILLBT). He has held a number of directorships including Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana, the National Pensions Regulatory Authority, Taysec Construction, Taysec Properties, Scripture Union Ghana, Victory Presbyterian Church School and the Bible Society of Ghana. He is a member of the Projects and Investments Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. He had before then served as a Trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana Education Foundation for over 10 years. He has been a Member of Council of the Christian Service University, Kumasi. He is a Trustee of the Esther Ocloo Memorial Foundation. He has held the position of Senior Presbyter and Presbyter at the Dansoman Emmanuel and Victory (Fafraha) congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana respectively.

In June 2010, he was the guest of Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Tea Tent as part of the Queen’s annual tea parties.

In March 2011 he was invited to speak on a panel at the first- ever Financial Infrastructure conference of the World Bank in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He spoke on the topic: “The role of Central Banks in a secured transactions reform programme.”

In May of the same year, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) invited him to attend the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul as a panelist. The purpose of the Conference was to adopt new measures and strategies for the sustainable development of the LDCs into the next decade.

He has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW). This is his 16th book, having written fifteen other books of which seven have so far been endorsed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) as supplementary readers for schools in Ghana. He has also contributed to another book, Letters of Hope to my Younger Self. He is a recipient of the GAW Achievement Award, 2019.

He has been married to Elioenai since 1978 and they have five adult children and three grandchildren.