GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Global-wide
Nana Eshun of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)
Nigeria-based Nana Eshun serves as a director and acting general counsel of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), ascending to the development finance institution’s top legal role in 2018 after having previously held positions within the African Development Bank and representing Ghana’s Ministry of Finance on the West African Gas Pipeline project. The former Eversheds lawyer is a project finance specialist and oversees AFC’s financing of a host of energy and infrastructure projects across the African continent, alongside a broader remit which also covers the governance and secretarial functions of an institution which holds over USD4 billion in investments across 28 nations.
Most Influential GCs - Africa-wide
Nana Eshun is one of the most high-profile legal practitioners on the continent. Based in Nigeria, she holds the position of Director and Acting General Counsel at Africa Finance Corporation.
She provides invaluable legal insight and support to the Corporation’s ventures, be that project financing IPPs, upstream and midstream oil and gas transactions or equity investments in greenfield power projects.
In what has been a highly decorated legal career, Nana has worked as a consultant legal counsel to the African Development Bank and represented the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance in connection with the West African Gas Pipeline project.
In private practice she worked at several prestigious UK law firms, including Dentons and Eversheds Sutherland.