18 Facts About Nathan Quao

Nathan Quao was born at Adawso in the Eastern Region on 21 November 1915 where his father Daniel James Nathan Quao of La was based as a general commodities merchant.

Nathan Quao's mother was Dinah Naa Densua Addy of Ga-Mashie.

Nathan Quao was a member of the Ga people of Accra.

Nathan Quao later obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University College of the Gold Coast, then a constituent college of the University of London.

Nathan Quao taught at the Accra Academy starting in 1936 and was the first headmaster of the Keta Secondary School from 1953 to 1956.

Nathan Quao served as the Acting Principal of the Winneba Training College.

Nathan Quao joined the foreign service of the Ghanaian civil service in 1959, becoming a career diplomat and civil servant in Belgrade, Ottawa and Paris and as Counsellor to Ghana's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City.

Under the leadership of Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Nathan Quao served as the Secretary to the National Redemption Council and Head of the Civil Service, retiring in 1973.

In 1974, Nathan Quao was appointed the Chairman of the Ghana Teaching Council and a member of the Manpower Board.

Nathan Quao was however plucked out of retirement in 1985 and appointed a Secretary at the PNDC Secretariat.

Nathan Quao was chairman of the board of Agricultural Development Bank from 1990 to 2002.

Nathan Quao was married to Dora Tawia Quao with two children.

Nathan Quao was the uncle of the Ghanaian economist and diplomat, Amon Nikoi, who was the Governor of the Bank of Ghana from 1973 to 1977 and Finance minister from 1979 to 1981.

Nathan Quao's brother-in-law, the Rev Carl Henry Clerk was an agricultural educator and Presbyterian minister who was elected the fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1950 to 1954.

Nathan Quao died in Accra on 15 February 2005 of natural causes.

Nathan Quao was accorded a state funeral on Friday 8 April 2005 at the Forecourt of the State House and buried at the La Public Cemetery by the Ghanaian government as a token of the state's appreciation of his distinguished service to the country.

Nathan Quao was a recipient of the Order of the Volta in 1975 and the Officer of the Order of the Star of Ghana in 1997.

Nathan Quao a distinguished civil servant but to continue to emphasize on the critical need for civil and local government service staff to exhibit professionalism and remain non-partisan in the performance of duties and service to the country.