Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born March 29, 1944) is a Ghanaian politcian and diplomat. He is the presidential candidate of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2008 election.
Akufo-Addo was one of the founding members of the NPP in 1992, and was also the founder and first chairperson of the Ghana Committee on Human and People's Rights.
Under President John Kufuor, Akufo-Addo was the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 2001 to 2003; he was then Minister for Foreign Affairs from April 2003 to July 2007, when, in accordance with his political party's rules, he resigned, along with seven others, to seek the presidential nomination of his party.