Lieutenant General Winston Mensa-Wood was a former Ghanaian military officer and served as the twenty-third Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from June 1990 to March 1992.
His secondary education was at the Ghana National College where he completed his West African Schools Certificate Examination in 1961.
He attained the rank of Major General prior to becoming the Commandant of the Military Academy and Training School at Teshie, Accra.
This was created after the overthrow of the Limann government because mismanagement had led to a large part of the 1981-1982 crop was trapped in the interior of the country as a result of bad roads and lack of vehicles.
[3] In June 1987, he was appointed Army Commander and also a member of the PNDC, the ruling military government in Ghana.