Augustus Obuadum Tanoh

In 1999, he split from the ruling NDC party, citing issues of corruption and disorganization. He founded the National Reform Party (NRP) and ran the following year on the NRP ticket. He returned to NDC with his colleagues in the Reform Party at the behest and upon several appeals made by the late President John Atta Mills in 2007/2008. In 2012 when the position of vice-president came open, Tanoh was a leading candidate for the post.

On his return to Ghana, he took up the offer to become the Executive Director (Finance and Administration) of GNPC, Ghana's third largest company with an annual turn over at that time in excess of $300million. He served on its board of directors and Executive Management until 1992.

He served in the assembly which wrote Ghana's 1992 constitution, as a representative of the grassroots based Committee for the Defence of the Revolution.

Mr. Tanoh after successfully assisting in the formation of the National Democratic Congress and working for its victory at the 1992 polls as Secretary of the Campaign Committee and one of its Principal Strategists, entered the private sector. Among his projects he pioneered non-traditional commodity exports from West Africa to the European Union in particular Cassava Chips, Groundnuts, Robusta Coffee, Hibiscus Flower, Red Sorghum, and Coarse Grain Cassava Flour (meal).Taking advantage of the free trade area established by ECOWAS he also established a trade in Palm Kernels exports from Ghana to Nigeria.

Mr. Tanoh was also part of the team that negotiated Ghana's first syndicated loans: one for $75million in 1991 with Bankers Trust, and subsequently with ANZ Bank for $110million in 1992, with the proceeds of both loans going to GNPC. Since the pioneering role of GNPC in leveraging on Ghana's cocoa proceeds to enter the International Debt Market, several billion dollars have been raised in this fashion in a series of annual borrowings exceeding $1billion at a stretch.

Mr. Tanoh was a front-seat participant in the evolution of banking services in the West African region by virtue of his stint as a director of Ecobank Ghana Limited (1990–1992), a pioneering West African-owned bank and now authentically a continent wide African Bank.

Tanoh was a founding member of the National Democratic Congress party (NDC). He served on various finance and economic boards in Ghana, particularly as the Executive Director of Finance and Administration of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation from 1989 to 1992.

During his tenure at the United Nations, Mr. Tanoh was the Principal Negotiator for Ghana and the Spokesperson for the Group of 77 on the Mining Code for the Law of the Sea. He was elected Chairman of the Africa Group during the 1988/ 89 annual meeting of the Law of the Sea in Kingston, Jamaica.

He was also invited by the Aspen Institute in Colorado to participate in the Group of Experts Meeting preparatory to the World Environment Conference (Brazil) to prepare the initial indicative draft convention on Climate Change. He was appointed Rappoteur for a similar conference hosted by the Canadian Government in Ottawa in 1988/ 89.

He was a lecturer of law at the University of Ghana between 1982 and 1983. In 1983 he left the university to become the Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and Head of State of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings. Later in 1983 he was appointed as a Member of the National Defence Committee (the Principal Political Organ of the PNDC) and its Standing Committee. In this position, Mr. Tanoh was responsible for the Projects and Programs of a two million strong national, political and economic organization existing in all communities in Ghana responsible for primary health care, community shops and local infrastructure projects among the many developmental activities initiated during this period. In 1985 in addition to these duties, Mr. Tanoh was appointed to the Ghana Government Committee on Petroleum and Contract Negotiations responsible for restructuring the laws and structure of the Ghana Petroleum Industry and for the negotiation of Exploration and Production Sharing Agreements with International Oil Companies (IOCs). In 1986 with the election of Ghana to the United Nations Security Council, Mr. Tanoh was appointed by the Government of Ghana to serve as Advisor/ Counsellor and delegate of Ghana to the Security Council. In this role he was very active in formulating the positions of Ghana and the Non Aligned Group on major international issues such as ending the Iran/ Iraq War, the Nicaragua/ Contra standoff involving the United States, the security situation in Southern Africa (in particular the incursions of South African Defence forces in to the front line States in violation of International law) and many more of the complex issues facing the Council not least the question of peace and security in the Middle East. During this period he was also appointed a member of the Ghana Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly representing Ghana on the Special Political Committee, the Fourth and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly. He served in these capacities until July 1989. He served as a member of Ghana's diplomatic delegation to the UN from 1986 to 1989.

Augustus "Goosie" Obuadum Tanoh (born 7 February 1956) is a Ghanaian politician and international businessman who has served in both public and private sectors in his country Ghana. He was the leader of the National Reform Party, a breakaway group from the National Democratic Congress between 1999 and 2007 and represented this party in the 2000 presidential election, where he garnered 1.1% of the national vote. He returned to the National Democratic Congress with his colleagues from the National Reform Party at the behest and upon several appeals made by the late President John Atta Mills in 2007/2008. Tanoh is originally a founding member of the National Democratic Congress.