President John Dramani Mahama is scheduled to address global political and business leaders today at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, where he will lead discussions on the Accra Reset initiative during a high-level side event on the margins of the annual meeting.
The President will participate in the inaugural Davos convening of the Accra Reset on Thursday, January 22, marking the Global South-led initiative’s debut on one of the world’s most influential policy platforms.
In a statement issued by the Presidential Spokesman and Minister of State for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, President Mahama was described as Chair of the Presidential Council of the Accra Reset. The initiative seeks to strengthen sovereign capacity and reimagine international cooperation amid growing global uncertainty.
The meeting is expected to bring together fellow members of the Presidential Council, including Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto, and President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nigeria will be represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, while Papua New Guinea will be represented by Prime Minister James Marape.
Former heads of state and government will also take part, forming the Guardians Circle of the Accra Reset. They include former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, former Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
According to the statement, the Davos meeting will formally launch priority programmes under the initiative, following its introduction at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly and its subsequent endorsement at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg.
The Accra Reset, the statement noted, is being advanced at a time of intensifying great-power rivalries, the weakening of traditional global aid frameworks, rising trade tensions, and multiple overlapping crises such as climate shocks, cost-of-living pressures, pandemics, and conflicts.
President Mahama views the Accra Reset as complementary to his domestic reform agenda, the Resetting Ghana Agenda. As a founding member, Ghana recognises that effective national governance depends not only on internal reforms but also on a fairer and more balanced international system.
The statement added that President Mahama has consistently emphasised that sovereignty is rooted in a country’s ability to implement its development vision while building strategic partnerships particularly within Africa and across the Global South to advance shared interests.
