Hon. Asaga is a Financial Consultant. He has a wealth of experience having worked with Daishin Securities & Investments Company, in Seoul, South Korea as Economics & Financial Analyst between 1988-1989. He subsequently joined Ecobank Ghana as Assistant Manager/Snr Financial Analyst in the Capital Markets Department between 1990-1992. He was head hunted by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and appointed as Snr Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance & Counter Party to Chase in London between 1993-1996.
Hon. Asaga gained Managerial skills, executive management leadership skills, boardroom skills, political and economic diplomacy, having served as Chairman of the Board of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority; Board Member, PURC; Board Member, Ghana Commercial Bank, and Board Member, Bank of Ghana.
In his political life, Hon. Asaga was a Member of Parliament for Nabdam constituency between 1997-2012 (16 years), Ranking Member for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Mines and Energy, Ranking Member, Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance & Economics. He was appointed as Minister for Labour & Social Welfare in 2011. He was appointed as a Deputy Finance Minister, with responsibility for the GRA, Controller, Customs and all revenue agencies where he was in charge of financial institutions, the banking sector and non-banking financial institutions. At the bilateral level, he was responsible for the African Development Bank, Exim Bank, Arab Bank, DFIs, etc. between 1997-2000. He was also the chairman of the PURC Technical Committee, and was later appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Petroleum Authority, from 2013-2017. During his tenure as CEO of NPA, he supervised, packaged and managed the successful implementation of the Petroleum Price Deregulation introduced by President John Dramani Mahama in 2015/16.
Hon. Asaga holds a BSc Industrial Chemistry from the University of Science & Technology (UST) Kumasi, MSc Petroleum Geology Reservoir Management, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, MBA Finance, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, MPhil Financial Economics, Durham University, UK.