Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia

Elikem Nutifafa Kuenyehia is a corporate lawyer, author and art patron who chairs Keystone Solicitors in Accra. His mother is the former International Criminal Court judge Akua Kuenyehia.

He went to Achimota School and read jurisprudence at Worcester College, Oxford, then qualified as a solicitor in England at Travers Smith in the City of London. He worked in international banking and finance at Linklaters and later took an MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Back in Ghana he was chairman and partner of Oxford and Beaumont Solicitors, which became ENSafrica Ghana, before founding Keystone. He wrote Kuenyehia on Entrepreneurship, sits on the boards of the State Interests and Governance Authority and Access Bank Ghana, and since 2022 has been a professor of practice at the University of Buckingham. He founded the Kuenyehia Trust for Contemporary Art, which runs the Kuenyehia Prize for contemporary Ghanaian art. The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader in 2010.