# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eva-mends
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:49:18.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eva-mends"
name: "Eva Mends"
slug: "eva-mends"
description: "Eva Esselba Mends is a Ghanaian economist. She was the first Ghanaian female to be appointed director of budget at the Ministry of Finance in Ghana. She was appointed into office in May 2017 by the government."
tagline: "Ghanaian economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eva_Esselba_Mends.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           36.89
  momentum:             10.46153846153846
  historical:           4.402448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Eva Mends"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mends"
    title: "Eva Mends"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mends"
    title: "Eva Mends"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mends"
    title: "Eva Mends"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mends"
    title: "Eva Mends"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump