Africa International Legal Awareness
Directors
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Rukia Baruti is founder and Managing Director at Africa International Legal Awareness (AILA).
Prior to founding AILA she practised law at SJ Berwin's International Arbitration Group in London. She also holds the position of Vice-President of
the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
Africa Users’ Council. Rukia benefits from experience in the roles of Counsel, Arbitrator and
Secretary to the Tribunal in arbitrations conducted under various arbitration rules including ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, SCC and the
LCIA Rules. She has a well-rounded knowledge of public
international law and international relations gained from her
postgraduate studies. Rukia has been listed in The Lawyer 'Hot 100' in recognition of her contribution to a pro bono initiative relating to African lawyers. |
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Debbie Emmanuel heads the Sub Sahara Africa Trade ("SSA")
Finance team of J.P.Morgan, London. She orginates and executes both
traditional and structured trade transactions in SSA. She has worked on
various transactions across industries - oil & gas, metals &
telecoms - in many of the countries including Ghana, Nigeria, Angola,
Kenya, South Africa, and Ivory Coast. The deals have involved both
financial institutions and corporates (local and international) on
bilateral and syndicated bases. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Debbie worked at
Standard Banks' structured Trade and Commodity Finance team. In the
course of her time at Standard Bank she worked in their London, South
Africa and New York offices. |
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Harris Bor is a barrister at Wilberforce Chambers specialising in all areas of company and commercial litigation, fraud, banking and financial services and international arbitration. He advises and represents investment and retail banks, investment funds, international corporations, governments and other public bodies. His arbitration experience includes contractual and investor/state disputes under UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and ICSID Rules. Harris is currently joint editor of a book on International Arbitration in the UK to be published by Kluwer in 2012. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University and LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary & Westfield College, and has been a teaching assistant at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at University College London. |
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