He was appointed as a Clinical Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kennesaw State University, USA, in 2013 and delivered a three-credit course for PhD and Master’s students in International Conflict Management from 2013 to 2017. He was also appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018, where he taught a three-credit course in peace and security for the International Relations postgraduate course. He is currently an Adjunct lecturer for the Masters of Laws (LLM) course on National Security Law at the University of Ghana Law School and for the Master’s course in Peace, Security and Intelligence Management and the PhD course in International Security and Intelligence at the University of Professional Studies, Accra. He also briefly served as an Adjunct Lecturer for the Master’s course in International Relations at Webster University (Accra Campus). He was the sole consultant for developing a PhD course in International Security and Intelligence for UPSA in 2021. General Kotia served as a consultant for the Constitution Review Commission of Ghana and was a member of the expert team that drafted the National Peace Council Bill of Ghana (Act 818). He chaired a committee that drafted the Security and Intelligence Act of Ghana (Act 1030, 2020) and the National Signals Bureau Act of Ghana (Act 1040, 2020). He served as a consultant and sole resource expert for establishing the Ghana Police Command and Staff College in 2014 and chaired Technical Working Groups that developed the first National Security Strategy for Ghana (2020) and the National Framework for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism in Ghana (2019). He also served as a regular facilitator to the Parliament of Ghana for orientation and workshops on National Security Perspectives for Members of Parliament from 2013 to 2024.