Hubert K. Foy is founding director and senior research scientist of the African Centre for Science and International Security, headquartered in Accra, Ghana since 2012. Also, Mr. Foy is a consultant on issues of nuclear and radiological security in Africa to the IAEA and US Department of Energy. Additionally, Mr. Foy is an Editorial Board Member and Professional Review Liaison for the International Journal for Nuclear Security. Also, he is a member of the National Academies’ ad hoc committee to review Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies (2020-2021).

For a decade, Mr. Foy has published and spoken widely on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, nuclear and radiological security, space safety and security, and dual-use science and technology. The King’s College London published his policy analysis recently Towards the 2020 NPT Review Conference: Action on nuclear-weapon-free zones. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published some of his analyses like  Nuclear security: From summits to mechanisms and Sustaining progress in nuclear security without the summits—an African view. The Space Safety Magazine has published some of his pieces like Building the World’s First Automated Space Debris Tracker. 

In 2012 he was a nuclear security fellow at the International School on Nuclear Security in Trieste. In 2011, at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, he was a technical nonproliferation and disarmament fellow for the UK-Norway Initiative. He is a member of the Fissile Material Working Group since 2015 and the current Vice-Chair of WGIII of the IAEA International Nuclear Security Education Network. He is a member of the NTI Nuclear Security Index’ International Panel of Experts.

He holds a master's degree in space studies from the International Space University in France, a master's in international policy studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science from University of Buea in Cameroon.

Before founding AFRICSIS, Mr. Foy was a visiting Research Scholar in the Cassini Orbiter’s mission team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Planetary Systems Laboratory, where development of planetary models and analysis of satellite data were conducted toward determining the nature and origin of the surface and the geological history of one of Saturn’s moon Mimas (2007). Prior, he taught various topics in physics including nuclear physics to pre-university science students at the Catholic Education Agency’s Sacred Heart College, Douala, Cameroon (2001-2006).