Grace Afua Bediako is a Ghanaian statistician and the former head of the Ghana Statistical Service.
[2] [3] Bediako had her secondary education at Achimota School, and earned her first degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Ghana.
[5][6][7][8] Bediako received the President's award of the Order of the Volta for Public Service in 2008.
[9] Bediako compiled and published the Annual Economic Survey[4] 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.
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.