President John Mahama is today engaging global political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he is championing the Accra Reset initiative at a high level side event on the margins of the annual meeting.

The President will lead the first Davos convening of the Accra Reset on Thursday, January 22, marking the initiative’s debut on one of the world’s most influential global policy platforms and amplifying its Global South driven vision.

A statement issued by the Presidential Spokesman and Minister of State for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, said President Mahama chairs the Presidential Council of the Accra Reset, an initiative designed to strengthen sovereign capacity and rethink international cooperation in an era of growing global uncertainty.

The meeting will bring together members of the Presidential Council, including Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Kenya’s President William Samoei Ruto, and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi. Nigeria will be represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, while Papua New Guinea will be represented by Prime Minister James Marape.

Also participating are former heads of state and government who make up the Guardians Circle of the Accra Reset, including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, former Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib Fakim, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

According to the statement, the Davos meeting will officially roll out the initiative’s priority programmes, following its introduction at the 2025 United Nations General Assembly and endorsement at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg.

The Accra Reset is being advanced against the backdrop of escalating great power rivalries, the erosion of traditional aid systems, rising trade tensions, and intersecting crises such as climate shocks, cost of living pressures, pandemics, and conflicts.

President Mahama views the Accra Reset as complementary to his domestic reform agenda, the Resetting Ghana Agenda. The statement noted that Ghana, as a founding member, acknowledges that effective national governance requires not only internal reforms but also a fairer and more balanced global order.

It added that President Mahama has consistently maintained that true sovereignty lies in a country’s ability to pursue its development goals while forging strategic partnerships, particularly within Africa and across the Global South, to advance shared interests.