George Hagan

Background

George Hagan was born in Accra in 1938.

Education

He proceeded to the United Kingdom where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology from Oxford University.

Career

His secondary education was at Street Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra and sixth form (college) at Saint 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 first worked at the Scholarship Secretariat in Ghana as a Welfare Officer between 1962 and 1964.

In 1968, he became a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana.

He rose to become Associate Professor in 1994 and the Director of the Institute in the 1997/1998 academic year. He is the Chairman of the Ghana National Commission on Culture and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (Electrocardiogram).

Professor Hagan was involved with the CPP from the days of Kwame Nkrumah in the mid 1960s.

He was the Presidential aspirant for the National Independence Party for the 1992 presidential election. George Hagan was the presidential candidate for the CPP in the 2000 elections.

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

Achievements

• He won 1.78% of the votes, coming fourth in the first round of the election, thereby missing the cut for the second round.

Politics

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.

Membership

He has served on many committees within the university as well as in outside institutions such as member of the Board of Directors, State Construction Corporation, Chairman of the Academic Committee of National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and member of the Board of Governors of Aquinas and Saint Augustine Secondary Schools.