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Chuks Ibechukwu is a lawyer and development financier specialised in project and infrastructure financing in developing countries, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. After almost two decades working with prominent global law firms in the City of London and International Finance Corporation, the private sector finance arm of the World Bank Group, he is now a partner at the Nigerian law firm, Olaniwun Ajayi, where he helped launch its international practice in London, a first for a major African law firm. His career in private sector-led financing has seen him advise development organisations, financial institutions, governments and corporate investors on hundreds of investments projects and upstream development initiatives in twenty-five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, mobilising over $40 billion of financing for critical social and infrastructure projects in Africa and other emerging markets. Nigerian born, Chuks now resides with his wife in London.