Nana Adjoa Hackman

Nana Adjoa is a corporate legal practitioner specialising in corporate governance, banking and petroleum law. She has provided advice on corporate and legal issues to multinational companies and leading international businesses operating across Africa. She was called to the Ghana Bar in October 2003, when she began private legal practice at Kudjawu & Co, a leading law firm in Ghana. She was until August 2016 the Head of Legal Department and Company Secretary for United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Limited.

Between 2017 and 2020, she served as a member of the Board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, where she chaired the Legal and Governance sub-committee of the Board. She currently holds directorship positions on a number of private sector boards. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the Society for Petroleum Engineers and the Energy Institute, and has published articles on the petroleum industry.

Nana Adjoa has an MBA from the Imperial College Business School, where she studied on an “Inspiring Women – EMBA scholarship” awarded by Imperial College Business School in partnership with the 30% Club, a campaign that aims to secure gender balance in board rooms across the world. Nana Adjoa also has an LLM degree with distinction from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland.

Nana Adjoa is also the founder of ‘Drive to Inspire Africa’, a non-profit organisation focused on the empowerment of youth, especially girls, through education and mentorship.