Biography

Nneoma Nwogu is a Senior Counsel at the World Bank where she works on strategic resource mobilization, aligning the needs of recipients, the Bank’s institutional priorities, and priorities of funding partners through a variety of funding instruments. She has also represented the Bank in Africa and the Middle East, notably in project structuring, negotiations, and compliance in international development finance transactions and advisory services across a diverse portfolio that includes agriculture, food security, social safety net, maternal and infant health, climate change, education, energy and natural resources governance. She leads the African Mining Legislation Atlas Project that created the leading resource on the laws on mining across the African continent and an intensive training course in mineral law for advanced law students and faculty in Africa.

Prior to joining the Bank, she was an international business transactions associate at Hogan Lovells LLP in New York and Washington DC. She has worked with the South African Human Rights Commission and the United States Justice Department. Ms. Nwogu received her BA from Wellesley College, an MPhil from Oxford University and JD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has served on the board of the Washington Foreign Law Society and as a term member of the United States Council on Foreign Relations. She is an adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law, American University where she teaches the law of international development finance institutions. Nneoma is frequently featured as a speaker at global events on development finance, sustainable mineral development, and disruptive technology in development.