# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-ayittey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:26:56.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-ayittey"
name: "George Ayittey"
slug: "george-ayittey"
description: "George B. N. Ayittey was a Ghanaian economist and author. He was president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington, D.C., a professor at American University, and an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute."
tagline: "Ghanaian economist and author (1945–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Ayittey_detail.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-10-13"
deathDate: "2022-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.89
  momentum:             6.678321678321679
  historical:           6.167677333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ayittey"
    handle:    "ayittey"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayittey/"
    handle:    "ayittey"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ayittey"
    title: "George Ayittey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%86_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "چورچ ايتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ayittey"
    title: "George Ayittey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ayittey"
    title: "George Ayittey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ayittey"
    title: "George Ayittey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ayittey"
    title: "George Ayittey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ayittey"
    title: "George Ayittey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump