Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur

Amissah-Arthur was born in Cape Coast, the administrative center of Ghana's Central Region, which at the time was known as the British Gold Coast Colony. His father, educator Jabesh Richmond P. Amissah-Arthur, was from the Amissah-Arthur family and served as the second and longest-serving headmaster of the Oda Secondary School at Akyem-Oda in the Eastern Region from September 1961 to December 1977. His mother, Effie Amissah-Arthur, is from the Hutchful family. Both families are of Fante ethnicity and are Cape Coast natives. One brother and four sisters made up the other five siblings of Kwesi Amissah-Arthur.

He went to the Aboom Methodist 'B' Primary School in Cape Coast and graduated from the Akim Oda Methodist School in 1964 after passing the Common Entrance exam. He

Amissah-Arthur worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research. From 1977 to 1978, he worked as a teaching assistant for the Economics Department, after which he was promoted to assistant lecturer in 1979. Between 1980 and 1988, he gave lectures at the University of Ghana's Economics Department. In addition, from August 1981 to July 1983, he served as a lecturer at the Anambra State College of Education's Department of Economics in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.

He entered politics up until 1997, when he left politics for a career in finance and economic consulting. In The Gambia, he served as a consultant for the World Bank. Additionally, he provided advice for a government project involving education in the Netherlands in

Amissah-Arthur worked for the Provisional National Defense Council as a special assistant to Kwesi Botchwey, the secretary of finance and economic planning. From February 1986 to March 1993, he served as the PNDC government's Deputy Secretary for Finance. After the formation of constitutional rule in April 1993, he continued to serve as the Deputy Minister for Finance in the Rawlings administration until March 1997.Additionally, he was a board member of the former state-owned Bank for Housing and Construction (BHC).

President John Atta Mills appointed Amissah-Arthur to the position of Governor of the Bank of Ghana in October 2009. He served in this capacity until Atta Mills' passing on August 6, 2012, at which point he was appointed vice president of Ghana. He was in charge of, among other things, making sure that the country's economy was growing generally, promoting the stabilization of the value of the currency both inside and outside of Ghana, and developing and implementing monetary policy to achieve the goals of the Bank and Ghana as a whole.

In order to fill the void left by the death of President John Atta Mills, his vice president at the time, John Dramani Mahama, who had been sworn in as president, appointed Mahama as his vice president.

Kwesi, an academic ophthalmologist, and Araba, a lawyer, were Amissah-Arthur's two children from his marriage to Matilda Amissah-Arthur. He was a devout Christian who attended the Calvary Methodist Church in Adabraka, Accra. He loved playing tennis and football. He was a supporter of and a significant shareholder in the football team Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. because of his passion for sports, especially football.

Amissah-Arthur, who apparently collapsed at the Air Force Gym during his regular morning workout, passed away at the 37 Military Hospital. He was given a state funeral at the Accra International Conference Centre, which was attended by several dignitaries. Following the funeral, his body was taken by a military cortège to the new Military Cemetery at Burma Camp, where he was buried, and the Last Post was played by army buglers as a 19-gun salute was fired.