Pauline Miranda Clerk (26 May 1935 – 25 October 2013[1]) was a Ghanaian civil servant, diplomat and a presidential advisor.
[8] His great-grandaunt was Regina Hesse (1832–1898), a pioneer educator and school principal who worked with the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast.
[2][3][4] She was initially assigned to the erstwhile African Affairs Secretariat located at the Ghanaian presidency, The Flagstaff House.
At the Secretariat, Pauline Clerk worked with the Ghanaian diplomat, K. B. Asante, who had been appointed by Kwame Nkrumah to the head the institution.
[1] She worked as an official in the East Africa Region and was stationed in Kampala, Uganda, where she studied Swahili at Makerere University.
[1] In the 1980s, she was appointed an advisor at the Offices of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) under the leadership of Jerry John Rawlings.