Chief Director for the Ministry of Energy, Lawrence Asangongo Apaalse, has since last Friday been beside himself with joy, after winning an award as the 11th best performing chief director.
He was presented a plague, citation and a Labtop at the annual event organized by the Office of the Head of Civil Service (OHCS) for deserving chief directors.
The Award is the top 11 best performing Chief Directors Awards for 2021 which was held at Alisa hotel, in Accra.
Profile of Lawrence Asangongo Apaalse:
Mr. Lawrence Asangongo Apaalse holds Masters Degrees in Petroleum Geology and Micropaleontology from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Moscow, and University College London, respectively as well as Diploma (Rhodes Ocean Scholar) from Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, Greece.
Mr. Apaalse is currently the Chief Director of the Ministry of Energy, responsible for initiating energy policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation as well as supervising and coordinating their implementation in all sixteen (16) Agencies under the Ministry.
Mr. Apaalse has over twenty-two (22) years working experience in the area of exploration geology with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).
While working at GNPC, he served in the National Continental Shelf Advisory Committee that drafted a Justification Report and a Cabinet Memo for the establishment of the Ghana National Continental Shelf Delineation Project in August 2006. Subsequently became the National Coordinator of the Project and Head of the Technical Core Group which prepared Ghana’s submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) for the establishment of the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in accordance with Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
From 2010 to 2014, he successfully led Ghana’s delegation to a series of meetings in New York with the subcommittee established to examine Ghana’s submission. He made the final presentation to the CLCS on August 26, 2009, during the 24th Session, culminating in favourable Recommendations adopted by the Commission on 5 September 2014
He is the architect behind the unanimous adoption of the “no objection note” by ECOWAS member States of Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana to the consideration of their submissions in line with the Rules of Procedure of the Commission.
He is currently the Technical Advisor to the Ghana Boundary Commission, overseeing the delimitation of Ghana’s maritime boundaries. He led the Technical Team of Ghana in providing inputs for the maritime boundary dispute arbitration between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
He is a member of the Ghana Institution of Geoscientists and Ghana Boundary Commission.
He has published variously, including “Ghana’s Extended Continental Shelf Submission to the CLCS under Art 76 of UNCLOS” in the Sri Lanka Journal of International Law, Vol. 22(1).
