Professor George Nwangwu has over 25 years of experience as a lawyer spanning various aspects of legal practice and academia in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. He is also a chartered accountant, financial consultant, and public policy professional. He is a leading expert on project finance law and private sector led finance for infrastructure in Africa. His research in this area has been cited widely.
Professor Nwangwu was a DFID/World Bank funded consultant with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) where he served as Special Adviser to the Director General on legal and strategy matters and later Head of the Strategy and Multilateral Relations. He was PPP Project Coordinator and Head of the PPP Division, Federal Ministry of Finance. He was also a special adviser to the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Hon. Minister of Finance on PPPs and infrastructure finance.
Currently, he holds the following positions: Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, Nile University Abuja; Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Mercantile Law, Stellenbosch University; Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, University of Harvard as well as an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London. He is also founder and Director General of the Centre for Law and Business, Abuja, Nigeria, and the managing partner of Ratio Legal Practitioners in Nigeria. To date Professor. Nwangwu has led transaction teams that have participated in the delivery of over100 privatization/ PPP/ climate finance transactions worth over USD 20 billion, working either on the side of the public sector or private sector in Nigeria.
He has the following qualifications: LL. B (Hons.) University of Lagos; LLM (Hons.) University College London; Ph.D. University of Hull; MBA University of Oxford.