Grace Bediako

Grace Afua Bediako is a Ghanaian statistician and the former head of the Ghana Statistical Service. She was formerly a member of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC).

Education Bediako had her secondary education at Achimota School, and earned her first degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Ghana. She earned a PhD degree in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to earning her doctorate degree in 1988, she acquired a diploma in Population Studies from the Regional Institute for Population Studies, Legon, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Survey Sampling from the University of Michigan. and a representative of the Internal Audit Agency serving as a member of the Audit Committee of the Ghana Science Association .

Awards Bediako received the President's award of the Order of the Volta for Public Service in 2008.

Works and publications Bediako compiled and published the Annual Economic Survey She is also responsible for the production of three major United Nations methodological reports: Handbook for Producing a National Statistical Reports on Women and Men, Technical Report on Collecting Economic Characteristics in Population and Housing Censuses, and Trial International Classification for Time-use Activities.

As a government statistician, she led numerous surveys, including the Ghana Living Standards Survey, 2005/06; Crime Victimization Survey, 2009; and National Population and Housing Census, 2010. She also formulated the five-year Ghana Statistics Development Plan, which sought to strengthen the institutional and human resource capacity of the different ministries, departments and agencies with linkages as well as sources of data for the compilation of national statistics.