At the time of this interview, Seth Terkper was the coordinator of the Value Added Tax project in Ghana. He later became the deputy commissioner when the project became the Value Added Tax Service. He worked with the National Revenue Secretariat as a qualified accountant. He published a series of articles on Ghanaian tax policy and administration in Tax Notes International. He also served as a consultant on tax issues for the African Development Bank, the Harvard Institute for International Development and the International Monetary Fund. 

At the time of this interview, Robertson Allotey had been acting chief director at the Ministry of Public Sector Reform in Ghana for six months.  Allotey began his career in civil service reform in 1998, when he was the director in charge of the Customer Services Improvement Unit in the office of the head of civil service. He earned a master’s degree in urban policy and housing and was particularly interested in the accessibility of urban housing stock and what factors made people content with their environments. Improvement of public service delivery to citizens played an important role and prepared him for his work with the civil service to improve delivery of services. 

At the time of the interview, Kwesi Jonah, who holds a doctoral degree, was head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, and was also a research fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance in Accra, Ghana. He has worked on several other projects related to governance.

At the time of this interview, Ezekiel Asamoah was an associate consultant with Asamoah Tax Consultancy Services in Accra, Ghana. He joined the International Revenue Service in 1964 as a tax officer, and he later rose from the ranks to become the deputy commissioner in 1987. In 1993, he moved to the Value Added Tax project office, became the director and worked to establish the service in 1998. He became the acting commissioner, and later rose from the ranks to the position of commissioner in 2000. He retired from the service in 2001.

At the time of this interview, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan was the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Ghana. He was instrumental in overseeing all aspects of the commission's activities, including the formation of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee, a forum for political parties to meet with the commission to discuss changes in electoral rules and procedures. He joined the commission in 1992 as the deputy chairman of elections and took up the chairmanship the following year. Prior to his work with the commission, he was a professor at the University of Ghana, Legon, and before that he taught at Santa Clara University in the U.S.  He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

At the time of this interview, Vincent Crabbe was the co-chairman of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers, which monitored all aspects of public elections in Ghana. Decades earlier, Crabbe established the country’s Electoral Commission. In 1968, he was appointed interim electoral commissioner. In this role, he oversaw the 1969 democratic elections that brought an end to military rule. Crabbe's status as interim electoral commissioner was equivalent to that of a judge on the Court of Appeals. He also served as the chairman of the Constituent Assembly for the drafting of Ghana's 1979 Constitution, as parliamentary counsel and constitutional adviser to the Ugandan government, and as director of the Commonwealth Secretariat Scheme for Legislative Draftsmen for the West, East, Southern and Central Africa Regions and the Caribbean Region. He also drafted the Guiding Principles for UNESCO in the field of Education, Scientific and Cultural Exchanges. He taught at the International Law Development Centre in Rome, Italy, and was a professor of legislative drafting at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

At the time of this interview, Ransford Gyampo was a professor of political science at the University of Ghana. He conducted extensive research into recent political trends in Ghana and especially into the 2008 election.  He also was an assistant professor at the Governance Center of the Institute of Economic Affairs in Ghana.  He earned a master’s degree in political science and specialized in human rights and government. 

At the time of this interview, Emmanuel Debrah was a senior lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Ghana in Accra.  He performed numerous studies of elections in Ghana, particularly on the role of the Electoral Commission.  Debrah received his doctorate in political science from the University of Ghana. 

At the time of this interview, Johnson Asiedu Nketia was general secretary of the National Democratic Congress in Ghana.  Prior to becoming head of the party, he was a member of Parliament for the NDC for 12 years.  He also served as deputy minister of food and agriculture.  Before entering politics, he worked as a bank manager.