Dr. Justice Ofori

Commissioner & CEO- National Insurance Commission (NIC)

Dr. Justice Ofori is the Commissioner of Insurance and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Insurance Commission (NIC). Prior to his appointment, he was the first Director of the Ghana Insurance College (GIC), an educational institution established by the National Insurance Commission (NIC), the Ghana Insurers Association (GIA), the Insurance Brokers Association of Ghana (IBAG) and the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (CIIG). He excelled in his mandate, which was to set up an Insurance College to educate, train, mentor and develop professionals in the practice of insurance in the country. This has enabled over 300 students of the College to qualify as Chartered Insurers and attain the Associateship status of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) of the United Kingdom (UK). Before his appointment, he worked with Vanguard Assurance Company Limited from 2004 – 2006 as a Senior Manager where he set up the Company’s Corporate Department. Dr. Ofori’s experience stretches back to holding various positions at McLarens Toplis in Canada, Allianz Canada and CGI Canada as a Licensed Independent Claims Adjuster between 1990 and 2004. Dr. Ofori holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ghana, Legon and a Diploma with Honours in Banking and Finance from the Toronto School of Business.

He also holds degrees from York University, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is certified in Management by the Canadian Institute of Management (CIM) and is a licensed Independent Adjuster, Ontario – Canada.
Dr. Ofori has an International Executive MBA degree from the Paris Graduate School of Management and is a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of Canada (IIC) and a Fellow of the West African Insurance Institute (WAII), The Gambia.

He possesses a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from the Swiss Business School (SBS). He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Ghana (FCIIG). While at Vanguard, he was a part-time Lecturer at the Insurance Industry Training Centre (IITC) of the NIC from 2004 to 2006 and a part-time Lecturer in Loss Quantification at the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA, Ghana). He currently serves on the Boards of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), the West African Insurance Institute (WAII) Governing Board and is an Executive Member of the ECOWAS Brown Card Council of Bureaux. Dr. Ofori is currently the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Ghana Insurance College (GIC).

Through his exemplary leadership and managerial acumen, he did not miss the lenses of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA). The GJA therefore, conferred on him an honorary Member of the Association during its 25th Awards particularly in recognition of his contribution to insurance education in the country and for his lead role in the introduction of the Motor Insurance Database (MID) to curb the phenomenon of fake motor insurances in the country to save innocent lives.
He recently picked three awards in one week. One for leading the Insurance Industry to donate the highest number of units of blood to save lives awarded by the National Blood Service. In less than a week, he was adjudged and presented with the coveted award of the Overall Best CEO of the year 2021 by the Ghana Leadership Awards!

He was recently inducted into the Oxford Academic Union for his stellar leadership and managerial acumen and achievements in the Ghana insurance space. He shot to fame in recent times not only for his achievements but also for his muscular structure which the media had touted as the admirable side of his brand!