George Hagan

Professor George Panyin Hagan (born 1938), is a prominent academic and politician in Ghana.

Early life and education George Hagan was born in Accra in 1938. He had his basic education in Accra, Koforidua, Sekondi and Kumasi because his parents, civil servants, were being transferred. His secondary education was at St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra and sixth form (college) at St. Augustine's College at Cape Coast. He proceeded to the University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Philosophy and later a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy as well. He proceeded to the United Kingdom where he obtained a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University. and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (ECG).

Politics Prof. Hagan was involved with the CPP from the days of Kwame Nkrumah in the mid-1960s. He was also a member of the National Alliance of Liberals in the Second Republic and a Standing Committee member of the Action Congress Party in the Third Republic. He was the Presidential aspirant for the National Independence Party for the 1992 presidential election.

Family George Hagan is married to Dr Maria Hagan, the Director of the National Eye Care Programme in Ghana. They have three children.

Publication Hagan, George P. Nkrumah's Cultural Policy, University of Ghana, Legon, 1985.