Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan[1] (born 1950s, Cape Coast) is a Ghanaian librarian who is the present executive director of African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), the board chair for the Ghana Library Authority[2][3] and the secretary general of African Regional Memory of the World Committee.

[7] She served as the Chairperson of the International Advisory Committee for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme 2013 – 2015.

[8][9] A member of the IFLA Governing Board 2010 - 2012[10] and the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) as well as a founding member from March 2004 to 2013.

She studied Library Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1977) for a bachelor's degree.

She obtained her Master of Arts Degree in Library Studies from the University of Ghana in 1981, and a PhD from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2011.