Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson

Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a Ghanaian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 24 October 2009 to 1 January 2017. From 2017 to 2021 he was prefect of the newly created Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, which consolidated several areas under one administration including, environment, ecology, ethics, dignity of all people, poverty, and economics. In 2022 he was named chancellor of the Pontifical Academies for Sciences and for Social Sciences. He was Archbishop of Cape Coast from 1992 to 2009. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003.