Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia

Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia is the founder of Oxford & Beaumont, a leading law firm in Ghana. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Elikem holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and attended Achimota School.
Prior to setting up Oxford & Beaumont, he was part of the start-up team that set up United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Limited (then Standard Trust Bank Ghana Limited), where he developed Ghana’s first zero deposit account and the blueprint for the bank’s market entry strategy. Elikem serves on multiple boards and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and 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, and, at Kellogg, the 2002 Business Leadership Award. Elikem is a solicitor admitted in England, Wales and Ghana, and teaches entrepreneurship at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).