Ms. Grace Bediako
Acting Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Ghana
Is the Acting Director-General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), and chair of the SDGs Implementation Coordination Committee. She is also the Chairman of the Governing Board of the Ghana Statistical Service. She has provided technical support in diverse capacities, to national, Africa-wide and other international initiatives including, the Africa Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD) and the Africa Programme for Accelerated Improvement in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (APAI-CRVS). She has had extensive experience in: preparing methodological publications and capacity-building in the collection, compilation and use of social and demographic statistics, and planning and coordinating of international statistical initiatives. She graduated from the University of Ghana, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Statistics, in 1977, holds a Ph.D. degree in Demography (1988), from the University of Pennsylvania.