# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kweku-adoboli
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:23:24.777Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kweku-adoboli"
name: "Kweku Adoboli"
slug: "kweku-adoboli"
description: "Kweku Adoboli is a Ghanaian investment manager and former stock trader. He was convicted of illegally trading away US$2 billion as a trader for Swiss investment bank UBS. While at the bank he primarily worked on UBS' Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London, where he engaged in what would later be known as the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. After serving a prison sentence, he lost several appeals against the UK Home Office decision to deport him to Ghana."
tagline: "Ghanaian-born British trader who was convicted of fraud"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/938149-kweku-adoboli_(7651034606).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1980-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.941078666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%83"
    title: "Адоболи, Квеку"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "كويكو ادوبولى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kweku_Adoboli"
    title: "Kweku Adoboli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3090485"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump