Our Team

Mr. Isaac Hubert Arthur is the Executive Director of the Africa Centre for International Trade and Development (ACINTaD), a trade policy think tank based in Accra, Ghana with a mandate to build sustainable trade development capacity in Africa.

He is an experienced international trade & investment promotion expert and development practitioner. Between June 2020 and January 2022, Isaac joined the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) as Senior Manager, Intra-African Trade Initiative, leading the Intra-Africa Trade Fair (IATF) and Trade & Investment Promotion, and successfully managed the implementation of the IATF2021. Before founding ACINTaD in 2017, Isaac was the Head of the Knowledge Management Unit of the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI).

Prior to WACSI, Isaac briefly worked with the Australian High Commission as Political and Economic Research Officer. After his studies in Switzerland, he worked as a Junior Associate on the Development and LDCs Programme at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) based in Geneva, Switzerland. He also worked with the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS-PACTE France) based in Grenoble as Research Assistant on a West Africa Climate Change Adaptation Research Project. Other organisations Mr. Arthur worked with include Finatrade Holding SA (West Africa Regional Office) as Administration & Procurement Officer, the High Commission of Canada as Trade Commissioner Assistant, Ghana-UK Chamber of Commerce and Industry as Executive Secretary, British High Commission as Entry Clearance Assistant. UNHCR (West and Central Africa) as Senior Bilingual Secretary, among others.

Isaac holds Advanced Master’s degree in International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute, University of Berne in Switzerland and a Research Master’s degree in International Development Studies from the Université Grenoble Alpes (Formerly Joseph Fourier University) in France. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Operations & Project Management, as well as Certificate in Monitoring & Evaluation from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and he is a certified facilitator and trainer from the Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University in Canada.