NJ Ayuk - CEO and Founder of Centurion Law Group Pty. Ltd.

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NJ Ayuk
CEO of Centurion Law Group

• NJ Ayuk is founder and CEO of Pan-African
  corporate law conglomerate, Centurion Law Group
  Founder and Executive Chair-man of the African
  Energy Chamber and author of Billions at Play
  The Future of African Energy and Doing Deals and
  co-au-thor of Big Barrels African Oil and Gas
  and the Quest for Prosperity. He is recognized as
  one of the foremost figures in African business
  today.
• A Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum,
  one of Forbes Top 10 Most Influential Men in
  Africa in 2015, and a well-known dealmaker in the
  petroleum and power sectors, NJ is dedicating his
  career to helping entrepreneurs find success and
  to building the careers of young African lawyers.
  NJ strives through his work to ensure that
  business, and especially oil and gas, impacts
  African societies in a positive way and drives
  local content development.

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NJ Ayuk
CEO of Centurion Law Group

• NJ graduated from the University of Maryland
  College Park and earned a Juris Doctor from
  William Mitchell College of Law and an MBA from
  the New York Institute of Technology.
• Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo of Nigeria, Secretary
  General of the Organization of the Petroleum
  Exporting Countries (OPEC) at the OPEC
  Secretariat in Vienna, Austria. An accomplished
  oil technocrat and veteran of OPEC, Mr Barkindo
  brings with him a wealth of experience in the oil
  and gas industry, both in Nigeria and
  internationally.
• From 2009 to 2010, he was Group Managing Director
  of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
  (NNPC). Previous to that, he served as Deputy
  Managing Director of Nigerian Liquefied Natural
  Gas, a joint venture between NNPC, Shell, Total
  and Eni. Earlier in his career, he was Special
  Assistant to former Minister of Petroleum
  Resources and OPEC Secretary General, HE Dr
  Rilwanu Lukman.

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CEO of Centurion Law Group

• Mr Barkindo also worked in several key roles at
  OPEC between 1986 and 2010. In 1986, he was
  appointed to Nigerias delegation to OPEC, and
  from 1993 to 2008, served as Nigerias National
  Representative on the Organizations Economic
  Commission Board. In 2006, he served as Acting
  Secretary General of OPEC, and represented
  Nigeria on OPECs Board of Governors from 2009 to
  2010.
• He has also helped produce the United Nations
  Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  and the Kyoto protocol as the leader of Nigerias
  technical delegation to the UN negotiations since
  1991. He also served as Vice President of COP15
  in 2010, when he chaired the opening session in
  Copenhagen attended by more than 100 heads of
  state and government. He is the longest serving
  member of the countrys delegation to the UNFCCC.
  He also served as Chairman of the OPEC Task Force
  of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable
  Development for the 15th session.

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NJ Ayuk
CEO of Centurion Law Group

• After earning a bachelors degree in political
  science from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Mr
  Barkindo went on to achieve a postgraduate
  diploma in petroleum economics and management
  from the College of Petroleum Studies at Oxford
  University and a masters degree in business
  administration from Southeastern University in
  Washington, DC. He is also a holder of an
  Honorable Doctorate Degree in Science from
  Modibbo Adama, Federal University of Technology,
  Yola, Nigeria. He is a fellow member of various
  international petroleum institutions such as the
  Institute of Petroleum, London.

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