
Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani
Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani, a leading and prominent African energy expert and finance executive has joined the African Energy Chamber’swww.EnergyChamber.org Advisory Board for 2020 and 2021.
Rolake will be advising and supporting the African Energy Chamber within its Investment and Energy Transition Committees.
Rolake is at present Managing Director of EnergyInc Advisors and Senior Africa Advisor for the IFU Danish Investment Fund.
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,” declared Nj Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber.
“Rolake represents the next generation of African business women who is playing the most critical role in shaping the future of our industry.”
Rolake also sits on the global advisory board of Canadian Private Equity firm, Stonechair Capital advising on its #EnergyAfrica Fund for Sub-Sahara Africa.
She 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.
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, Rolake was recognized in the United Nations’ MIPAD Top 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Under 40, in the Business & Entrepreneurship Class of 2018.
She was also 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 degree from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a global executive MBA from TRIUM.
The African Energy Chambers has also announced other advisers.
Among them are Robert Erlich, American geologist and oil expert and Nosizwe Nokwe-Macamo, South African businesswoman, engineer and natural gas expert
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