George Yaw Gyan-Baffour (born 27 March 1951)[1] is a Ghanaian development economist and politician.

That year, he contested the Wenchi constituency parliamentary election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.

He was appointed a Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning from March 2005 to December 2008 by President Kufour.

[6] In 2015, he publicly opposed the Mahama administration's plan to seek a government bailout from the International Monetary Fund.

[7] He believed that the solution to the then economic difficulty the country was going through could be resolved by accessing loans internally.

[11] Gyan-Baffour was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for the Wenchi constituency in the 2008 Ghanaian general elections.

[14] In all the New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 107 parliamentary representation out of 230 seats in the 5th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.

[11] During the 2012 parliamentary elections, Gyan-Baffour obtained 50.83% of all valid votes by defeating Yaw Osei Agyei of the National Democratic Congress, Ebenezer Gyimah Koomson of the Progressive Peoples' Party and Jacob Steve Kojo Akasampah Gyan of the National Democratic Party.

[16] The President called him a "respected economist with the right expertise as former head of the National Development Planning Commission".

[17] He was charged with translating the New Patriotic Party's election manifesto into workable, achievable targets for national development.

During his vetting, he told the committee that Ghana did not need a 40-year development plan as it promotes rigidity.