Charles Bernard Ntim
Charles Bernard Ntim represents the Ministry of Finance/Government of Ghana on the PBC Limited Board of Directors. He is an Economist and Business Executive by profession and has held numerous positions in business and Government.
Charles Bernard Ntim was the Managing Director of the Produce Buying Company (then a subsidiary of the Ghana Cocoa Board) from 1988 to 1997 and Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) from the year 2006 to April 2009. Prior to these appointments he was the Deputy Director of Policy Planning, Monitoring and Research at COCOBOD.
Mr. Charles Bernard Ntim has considerable experience in Commodity Marketing and Research. His in-depth experience of the agricultural sector has been gained not only in Ghana but also elsewhere in Africa. From 1957 to 1977 he worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Gaborone, Botswana setting up an Agricultural Marketing Board.
He is currently the Managing Consultant to Mint Consultancy Services, Chairman and Promoter of Ghana Commodity Clearing House as well as Chairman of the CCH Finance House Limited.
Mr. Charles Bernard Ntim is a product of St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast and the University of Ghana where he obtained a BSc. Hons. Economics after which he obtained a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. He has also participated in a Senior Management Programme at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom and in an Executive Seminar on Financial Planning and Budgetary Control with Price Water House, Accra.
He has published several papers notable and relevant for the Cocoa Industry such as:
i. The Optimum number of Firms desirable for the Internal Marketing of Cocoa in Ghana;
ii. Opportunities for Financing of Cocoa Purchases through the Commodity Clearing House Scheme, a paper delivered at a Seminar on Commodity Trade Financing in May 2000 and
iii. Ghana and the European Economic Community.
Important Seminars and Conferences attended include:
i. Commodity Trade Financing organized by the European Union for ACP Executives in Soft Commodities in Amsterdam in the year 1985;
ii. Negotiating Contractual Agreements relating to foreign investments by the Ghana Stock Exchange, Accra in the year 1997;
iii. Represented Ghana at all meetings of the International Coffee from 2006 to 2008 and
iv. Chairman, Technical Committee for the total elimination of Child Labour in the Ghanaian Cocoa Industry from 2006 to 2008 etc.
Mr. Bernard Ntim is a Christian, family man and an avid Horticulturist.