357:(OSAA) at UN Headquarters till he retired in 2018. His role as the director was to ensure the mission of OSAA in enhancing international support for Africa's development and security is well met. He was also to led the office in assisting the UN Secretary-General in improving coherence and coordination of the UN system support to Africa to facilitate inter-governmental deliberations on Africa at the global level.
200:(born 7 August 1950) is a Ghanaian retired diplomat, international affairs director and administrator. Hayford served for 40 years as a diplomat in the Ghana Foreign Service including serving as Ghana's Ambassador to South Africa. He also served as the Director of African Affairs in the Executive Office of
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Hayford is currently an advisory board member of the Teach2Teach
International, a non-governmental organization and an educational charity supported by the UK aid from the British people, that seeks to response to two major global challenges; low educational attainment of primary school children, and
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In August 2018, Hayford being one of the most notable
Ghanaians to have worked with Kofi Annan for virtually the whole time he was the UN Secretary-General, described his former boss, on Ghanaian mainstream television station Citi TV show, the Point of View as being among the greats and top African
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Hayford since his retirement has been giving public lectures on
International Affairs and Diplomacy especially in Ghana and within Africa. He was appointed as a faculty member of the African University College of Communications. In February 2020 he was one speaker for a public lecture at the Legon
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in Ghana, he served in a high rank position as
Director of International Organizations and Conferences from 1986 to 1988 and again from 1992 to 1995. He was also at one point in time the Deputy
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high levels of youth unemployment. He was also a member of the Komla Dumor
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Hayford joined the
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the symposium he made profound statements that the best way to eulogise and remember Kofi Annan was;
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from 1996 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999, Hayford was Ghana's
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