Surv. Alexander Ayettey

Surv. Alexander Ayettey, MGhIS

Coordinator (YSN), 2024/2025 Session

Surv. Alexander Ayettey is currently the head of the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Section, SMD – Lands Commission Ghana. He is also the leader of the UAV Mapping team of the Commission. He has served in several capacities and committees during his over 10 years of employment with the Commission including: member of the Technical Sub-Committee of the Joint Ghana-Togo Maritime Delimitation Committee, member/secretary of the Technical Review Committee for review of the Technical Guidelines for Surveying and Mapping in Ghana, and member of the Technical Review Committee for Mapping under the GARID Project.

Surv. Ayettey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geomatic Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Land Governance and Policy from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He also pursued and successfully completed a Master of Science degree in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics from the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany. He is an alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a Carlo-Schmid Programme (CSP) fellow.

Surv. Ayettey’s resourcefulness has been evident since he became a member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors in 2019. He has served two (2) consecutive sessions in the Governing Council as an elected member from the Land Surveying Division and currently represents the Young Surveyors Network on the Council as the YSN Coordinator. While in Council, he has served on several committees including: secretary of LS Division (2022/2023 & 2023/2024), member of the Research Committee (2022/2023), member of the Membership Committee (2023/2024), and currently serves as the chairman of the Student Membership Committee (2024/2025).

Surv. Ayettey is a proud advocate for Young Surveyors and played an integral role in drafting the YSN regulations, which received Governing Council approval in September 2022. He recently served on the Volunteer Management Subcommittee of the FIG Working Week, Accra 2024 Local Organizing Committee (LOC). He is a recipient of the Surv. Dr. Joseph Paul Okang Award for Academic Excellence (2010) and was awarded the Overall Best Trainee Professional Surveyor of the Lands Surveying in 2019.