Dr. George Nwangwu has close to two decades of experience as a lawyer spanning various aspects of legal practice and academia in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. As an international consultant to multilateral institutions, he has been involved with framework issues in the field of Infrastructure/Utilities Regulation and Finance, Energy Law, Project Development, Environmental Law and Policy, Private Sector led Infrastructure Finance and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).
In this capacity, he provided full support to government agencies and mineral exploration and production companies. Dr. Nwangwu was a DFID and World Bank-funded consultant with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) where he held the following posts: Environmental Legal Adviser, Infrastructure Legal Adviser, Special Assistant to the Director-General on legal and strategy issues and finally Head of Strategy and Multilateral Relations. To date, Dr. Nwangwu has participated in over 100 privatization/ PPP transactions worth over USD 10 billion either on the side of the public sector or private sector. He was PPP Coordinator, Federal Ministry of Finance. He was also Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Hon. Minister of Finance on infrastructure Finance and PPPs. Dr. Nwangwu was also a lecturer in the Department of Commercial Law, University of Lagos and taught International Commercial Arbitration at the University of London (External Programme). He obtained postgraduate degrees from the University College London, University of Hull and University of Oxford. Dr. Nwangwu is also a leading authority on private sector-led finance for infrastructure and PPPs in Africa and has published extensively in these areas.