Dr. Kofi George Konuah (19 August 1904 – 6 June 1996) was a Ghanaian educationist, public servant and elder statesman who served as Chairman of the Public Services Commission of Ghana from 1962 to 1969. Early life Konuah was born on 19 August 1904 in Kumasi, Ashanti to parents of Ga-Adangbe ethnic origin. His father, Alexander Konuah, a Gold Coast civil servant, was an assistant treasurer in the colonial service. Alex Konuah belonged to the Bruce family of British Jamestown, and the Konuah family whose roots are in Elmina. His mother, Elizabeth Quao, also known as Naa Densua II was the Otublohum Manye (queenmother). He had his early education at the Government Boys' Schools at Cape Coast and Accra from 1910 to 1919 and proceeded to the Wesleyan Boys' School in Freetown, Sierra Leonne for his secondary education completing in 1925. During his final year in the school, he was made the head boy. He continued at Fourah Bay College and was a student at the college during Kwegyir Aggrey's visit when the college had its centenary celebration. Aggrey impressed upon Konuah the idea of taking up teaching as a career. He graduated from Fourah Bay College in 1928, with a BA degree from Durham University. In 1946, he was awarded a British Council Bursary to study for a Diploma in Education at the University of London. Public life Konuah first taught at Christ Church Grammar School and for a brief while at Achimota School in 1930. Not too soon long after this, Konuah together with three others decided to set up a private school to cater for the educational needs of children who showed some aptitude for learning but whose parents could not afford to send them to the existing schools of the day. They were James Akwei Halm-Addo, Konuah's mate at the Wesleyan Boys School and Gottfried Narku Alema and SamueI Neils Awuletey who were colleagues of his at Fourah Bay College. In July 1931, they founded the Accra Academy in a property given out by Madam Ellen Buckle. Konuah served as the first Principal of the Accra Academy. In 1948, he served as deputy to Nii Kwabena Bonne, then Osu Alata Mantse, on Nii Bonne's Anti-Inflation Campaign Committee, which was set up to demand a reduction in the prices of foreign goods in the country at the time. In 1950, he became a member of the Sir