Leading and prominent African energy expert and finance executive, Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani, has joined the African Energy Chamber’s advisory board for 2020 and 2021.
Akinkugbe-Filani will be advising and supporting the AEC within its investment and energy transition committees.
Currently the managing director of EnergyInc Advisors and senior Africa advisor for the IFU Danish Investment Fund, Akinkugbe-Filani “brings years of experience providing financial and strategic advisory services” to the public and private sector in oil and gas and power.
She has built a track record of helping to finance, invest in, and successfully scale businesses across Africa’s energy sector.
“Rolake has critical experience in the financing and scaling up of gas and renewable energy companies, which is just what our continent needs at the moment,” Nj Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the AEC, said.
“Rolake represents the next generation of African businesswomen who are playing the most critical role in shaping the future of our industry.”
Akinkugbe-Filani also sits on the global advisory board of Canadian Private Equity firm, Stonechair Capital advising on its #EnergyAfrica Fund for Sub-Sahara Africa and was previously the head of energy and natural resources for FBN Capital and FBNQuest Merchant Bank, Nigeria’s oldest financial services group, where she helped energy, and oil and gas companies raise debt and equity capital, according to a statement by the AEC.
From 2017-19 she was also a member of the private sector economic advisory group in the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria, working closely with the chief economic adviser to the President on a range of national development policy issues.
For her significant contribution to Africa’s growth story, Akinkugbe-Filani was recognized in the United Nations’ MIPAD Top 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Under 40, in the Business and Entrepreneurship Class of 2018, and was listed in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Choiseul Institute’s (France) top 200 Under-40 Young Economic Leaders in Africa.
Rolake has a BSc and MSc degrees from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a global executive MBA from TRIUM.
