Elikem Kuenyehia

Non-Executive Director

Elikem is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme court of Ghana and Chairman of Keystone Solicitors, a corporate and commercial law firm located in Accra. He was previously the Chairman of ENSafrica Ghana which is the Ghana subsidiary of Africa’s largest law firm ENSafrica. He has specialisation in a number of areas of law, including banking and corporate finance, employment, M&A, oil and gas, corporate commercial, and corporate governance. He has advised local and international clients in a number of industries, including the petroleum, telecommunications, insurance, and food and beverage industries. Elikem’s experience includes advising clients on various aspects of business mergers and acquisitions, as well as negotiating and drafting commercial finance agreements in a range of industries.

He is the author of Kuenyehia on Entrepreneurship, the first Ghanaian textbook on entrepreneurship. In 2012, Elikem was named by Forbes and CNBC as “West Africa Young Business Leader of the Year” and named one of Africa’s next generation leaders by the African Leadership Network. In 2010, he was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, as well as one of “Africa’s 40 under 40 Achievers” by The Network Journal. He also received the Millennium Excellence Awards’ Young Professional of the Year Award in 2006.

Elikem holds BA and MA degrees in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University