Lieutenant General Joseph Boateng Danquah (born 7 July 1947) was the twenty-seventh Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Ghana Armed Forces.
Joseph Boateng Danquah attended Pope John Senior High School and Minor Seminary at Effiduase, Koforidua and had his basic military training at the Ghana Military Academy at Teshie in Accra.
Danquah was the commanding officer of the Second Ghana Battalion of the ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) based in Liberia between October 1990 to June 1991.
He has had three duty tours on United Nations peacekeeping missions UNIFIL, southern Lebanon.
On 20 May 2005, Danquah then a brigadier, was promoted major general and appointed the CDS of the Ghana Armed Forces by President Kufuor.