George Tawia Odamtten, FGA (born 7 July 1948) is a Ghanaian mycologist at the University of Ghana.
He was professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology and formerly dean of the erstwhile faculty of science at the University of Ghana.
[5] On his return, Odamtten took up part-time lectureship at University of Ghana in 1981 and subsequently full-time lecturership in 1983 in the Department of Botany.
[5] In 1996, Odamtten became acting dean of the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana and held this post until 1998.
Odamtten has served as a member of the National Codex Alimentarius Commission Committee on Food Additives and Security from 2006.
Odamtten serves on the expert committee for the annual review of programme of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana.