Marjorie Ethel Danso Manu is a Statistician / Demographer by training and practice. She was educated at the University of Ghana in the years 1977-80; 1981-82; 1998-2005; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine of the University of London, 1984-86 and Wesley Girls' High School 1969-76.

Her academic qualifications are M.Sc. (Medical Demography, London) 1985; Graduate Diploma (Population Studies, Ghana) 1982; and B.A.Hons (Statistics and Economics, Ghana) 1980.

She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Ghana, where she has been teaching since October, 1986. Her Research Interests include Information Systems for Health Intervention Programmes, Development and Organization of Official Statistics in Ghana; Conceptual and Practical Problems in the Measurement of Economic and Social Indicators; Mortality Patterns and Life Expectancy after Retirement and their implications for Pension Funds.

She also consults for Individuals, Groups and Organizations working on Small and Large Scale Investigations involving: Sampling Design, Questionnaire Design, Data Collection, Data Analysis and Reporting.  She served on many Boards at the University of Ghana and presently she is a member of four Professional Associations namely International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Union for African Population Studies, Ghana Science Association, Association of Women in Science and Technology (WIST) Ghana.

She has few publications and one book to her credit.