Fabian Ajogwu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a Lagos Business School Professor of Corporate Governance. He is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and Said Business School of Oxford University. He holds a Ph. D. in Law from the University of Aberdeen, an MBA from the IESE Business School, and Law degrees from the University of Nigeria and the University of Lagos. He has practised law for over three decades and is a Senior Partner at KENNA.
Professor Ajogwu has served as Lead Counsel to governments and corporations in numerous cases of national importance, with a particular emphasis on energy, telecommunications, finance, and policy. He chaired the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Committee on the Corporate Governance Code for the telecommunications industry. He also assisted the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in drafting Nigeria’s pioneer Code of Corporate Governance and served on the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria’s (FRCN) Committee on the National Code of Corporate Governance.
He is the Chairman of Guinness Nigeria Plc and Novare Group. He serves on the board of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc (a member of Standard Bank Group) and the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA). He is also the President of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (NICArb), where he developed and taught the Commercial Arbitration and Mediation curriculum. In addition, he initiated the Dispute Resolution Journal of the Lagos Court of Arbitration and co-initiated the Journal of Arbitration of NICArb. He also serves on the Ethics Committee of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN).
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Journal of Corporate Governance’, a publication of the Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria and a member of the Editorial Board of the ‘Journal of Law Practice’ of the body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria.
Professor Ajogwu, SAN, is a recipient of the national honours award of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), conferred on him by the President of Nigeria.
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Scotland
MBA, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
LL.M, University of Lagos, Nigeria
B.L., Nigerian Law School, Lagos
LL. B, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
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