Elikem Nutifafa Yaw Kuenyehia
Professor Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia is Chairman of Keystone Solicitors, a new generation African law firm and Honorary Consul of Finland in Ghana.
He is a corporate lawyer, entrepreneur, and business advisor with over 15 years of experience in advising international companies in respect of investments in Africa.
He is best known for founding Oxford & Beaumont Solicitors, a globally recognised leading law firm that merged with ENSafrica in 2015 to create Africa’s largest law firm. Prior to starting Oxford & Beaumont, he was part team that established United Bank of Africa Ghana and earlier in his career, worked as an International Banking lawyer at the London office of Linklaters LLP.
Legal 500 named him a law firm leader clients consider to be ‘at the pinnacle of the legal profession in Ghana’ and has previously been named a Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum and West Africa Young Business Leader the Year by Forbes/CNBC.
He is the founder of Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary African Art which identifies West Africa’s most outstanding visual artists and supports them with finance and mentoring.
Considered a thought leader of entrepreneurship in Africa, he is Professor of Practice at University of Buckingham in the UK and author of ‘Kuenyehia on Entrepreneurship’.
He currently serves on the boards of Access Bank Ghana Plc, Goldkey Properties Limited, Sentinel Asset Management Limited and State Interests and Governance Authority (where he represents the President of Ghana). He has held non-executive board positions at Google Ghana, Hollard Insurance Ghana, and Chase Petroleum.
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.
