Elias Isaac

Elias Isaac has worked for over 18 years on humanitarian and development programmes in Angola, focussing on the areas of democracy, governance and human rights. He is currently the Angola Country Director for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), which is funded by the American billonaire philanthropist, George Soros and aims to promote open and tolerant democracies in the region a particularly hard task in Angola. Previously he has worked for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the Department of Humanitarian Assistance, Social Studies and Projects of the Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola. Elias holds a Masters Degree in Theology from the Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis and a Diploma in Theology from Makerere University, Uganda.