Matthew Opoku Prempeh, (born 23 May 1968) is the current Education Minister of Ghana.As a Ghana parliamentarian, he represents Manhyia South in Kumasi, formerly representing Manhyia.
He was first elected to parliament in 2008 and is a member of the New Patriotic Party.In 2016, he was re-elected with 35,958 votes, or 87.17% of the votes cast in the district.Prempeh studied human biology and medicine at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, later continuing post-graduate studies at the Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.Prior to parliament, he served as CEO of Keyedmap Security Services Limited from 2004 to 2009 and as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2003.He identifies as a Christian and is a nephew of the former Ghanaian president, John Kufuor.