Profile:
He originally worked at the Scholarship Secretariat in Ghana as a Welfare Officer between 1962 and 1964. In 1968, he became a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana. He rose to become Associate Professor in 1994 and the Director of the Institute in the 1996/1998 scholastic year. He has served on numerous councils inside the college just as in external foundations like individual from the Board of Directors, State Construction Corporation, Chairman of the Academic Committee of National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) and individual from the Board of Governors of Aquinas and St. Augustine Secondary Schools. He is the Chairman of the Ghana National Commission on Culture and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (ECG). Also Prof. Hagan was part CPP from the days of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in the mid-1960s. He was moreover a part of the National Alliance of Liberals in the second Republic and a Standing Committee member of the Action Congress Party during Third Republic. He was the Presidential Candidate for the National Independent Party for the 1992 presidential election. He was a part of the People's Convention Party (PCP) and the parties which finally led to the formation of the Conversion Peoples Party (CPP). George Hagan was the presidential candidate for the CPP during the 2000 Elections.
Education:
His secondary education was at St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Cantonments a suburb of Accra and sixth form (college) at St. Augustine's College at Cape Coast. He proceeded to the University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Philosophy and later a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy as well. He proceeded to the United Kingdom where he obtained a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University. He made a publication in the year 1985 thus;
- Hagan, George P. Nkrumah's Cultural Policy, University of Ghana, Legon, 1985.