Ing. Harriette Amissah-Arthur is a Co-founder and Executive Partner of Arthur Energy Advisors (AEA), a leading energy consulting firm based in Accra and providing advisory services to the West Africa Sub-region since 2001. AEA was set up to partner global players in the delivery of world class solutions that are adequately contextualized for optimum impact.
Harriette holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ghana, as well as certificates in Utility Management and Power Operations from General Physics Corporation, Florida, USA and Dresden University, Germany, respectively.
With a career spanning over 35 years, Harriette has worked in various strategic and senior roles at the Volta River Authority (VRA), Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and the Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE), prior to becoming the Executive Partner of Arthur Energy Advisors.
Harriette is a passionate entrepreneur, pragmatic engineer and astute troubleshooter. She has led several teams to provide world-class solutions to a number of public and private sector clients in energy sectors across the ECOWAS Sub-region and in so doing has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of investments into the Sub-region.
She draws on her vast experience in power system operations and development work as well as her entrepreneurial skills to identify opportunities which she packages into bankable projects and service offerings.
Ing Harriette Amissah-Arthur is a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineering and the African Leadership Initiative.