Helena Asamoah-Hassan

Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan (born 1950s in Cape Coast) is a Ghanaian librarian who is the present Executive Director of African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) and the Board Chair for the Ghana Library Authority
Career.
She is the immediate past University Librarian of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). President of the Ghana Library Association from 2002 to 2006, and the first president of the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA). She served as the Chairperson of the International Advisory Committee for UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme 2013 – 2015. A member of the IFLA Governing Board 2010 - 2012 and the Chairperson of the Management Committee of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) as well as a founding member from March 2004 to 2013
Education.
Her education started at the Breman Asikuma Roman Catholic School, (Takoradi), Howard Memorial Primary School (Takoradi) and continued at the Nyaniba Middle Boarding School (Nkroful), where she obtained her middle school certificate and then to Konongo Odumasi Secondary School for her secondary education. She gained admission to study Library Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1977) for a bachelor's degree. she obtained her Master of Arts Degree in Library Studies (University of Ghana, 1981), and a PhD from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST, 2011).
Positions Held.
Positions held by Dr. Helena Asamoah-Hassan include and not limited to the following:
Publications.
As a Librarian and a leader, she has contributed to knowledge in all aspects of Librarianship having ninety six (96) papers to her credit. These papers were presented at Conferences and seminars at national and International level.