Ghana

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 11 April 1958

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

President of the Republic: H.E. Mr John Evans Atta Mills

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

Mrs Novisi Abaidoo
Minister, Deputy Permanent Delegate, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.

Permanent Delegation of Ghana to UNESCO
Ambassade du Ghana 8, Villa Saïd 75116 PARIS
Telephone: 01.45.00.09.50
Fax: 01.45.00.81.95
E-mail: dl.Ghana@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Chairman: Hon. Alex Tettey-Enyo, MP *
acting Secretary-General: Mrs Sylvia Lutterodt

Ghana National Commission for UNESCO
Ministry of Education, Science and Sports P.O. Box 2739 ACCRA GHANA
Telephone: (233.21) 666 042; (233.21) 662 718; (233.21) 677 208 (Sec-Gen)
Fax: (233.21) 662 718; (233.21) 664 067
E-mail: salutter@yahoo.co.uk (SG a.i.); info@unescoghana.org; ogyiriek@yahoo.com; natcomunesco@edughana.net
Web site: http://unescoghana.org/

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Kankam Twum-Barima	1970-1976	86-100
Member	Mr Patrick K. Seddoh	1980-1985	111-122
Chairperson	Mr Patrick K. Seddoh	1983-1985	118-122
Member/Representative	Mrs Thérèse Eppie Striggner-Scott	1991-1994	138-144
Representative		1994-1995	145-147
Representative		1997-2001	153-162
Representative		2003-2007	168-177

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2013)


• Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
  Elected Member : Ms Takyiwaa Manuh (Term expires : December 2008)

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (1998).