Prof. Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia (49 years) is a Corporate Lawyer, Entrepreneur and Business Advisor focused on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa with over 15 years’ experience of advising international companies with investments in Africa across a multitude of industries including financial services, technology, advertising, and telecoms.
He is Chairman of Keystone Solicitors and founded Oxford & Beaumont Solicitors which he merged with ENSafrica in 2015. He acted as Chairman of ENSAfrica Ghana and a director of ENSAfrica Inc.
He currently serves on the board of Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority as nominee of the President of Ghana. He has held non-executive board positions at Google Ghana, Hollard Insurance Ghana and Chase Petroleum. Legal 500 named him one of only three law firm leaders who clients consider to be ‘at the pinnacle of the legal profession in Ghana’.
He is the founder of the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary African Art which identifies West Africa’s most outstanding visual artists and supports them with finance and mentoring.
Prof. Kuenyehia earned a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and an MBA in Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Buckingham.
He resides in Ghana and was appointed to the Board of Access Bank (Ghana) Plc on 16th August 2022.