Anthony Akoto Osei

Anthony Akoto Osei (18 April 1953 – 20 March 2023) was a Ghanaian banker and politician. Osei was in the cabinet of President John Agyekum Kufuor first as Minister of State for Finance and Economic Planning and then Acting Minister of Finance. He was a member of Parliament for the electoral district of Old Tafo in the Ashanti region.

He had his secondary level education at Achimota School and Opoku Ware Senior High School. He continued at Oberlin College in Ohio where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in economics. He earned a Master of Arts degree in applied economics from the American University in the USA.He also graduated from Howard University in 1987 with a PhD in economics.

Osei was an economist by profession. On 27 March 2002, Osei became a member of the management board of Merchant Bank (Ghana) Ltd. Previously, he worked as associate professor at Dillard University (USA) and before that as a research assistant at the Centre for Policy Analysis (Ghana).