Ivie Ehanmo is a renowned multi-jurisdictional expert in the energy sector with over 14 years’ experience where she has been involved in a wide array of complex transactions for multiple clients in Nigeria and across Africa. She is the Founder of Electricity Lawyer (EL), a novel data-driven research, legal and regulatory service provider offering tailored aggregated tools, resources, solutions, and services cutting across power markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), for better informed decision making by stakeholders. The goal of EL is to promote energy access through knowledge access.

Ivie has and continues to provide expert legal, regulatory, governance and transaction advisory support to global institutions and agencies such as the World Bank, U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), Millennium Challenge Corporation (USA), United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), United Kingdom Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (UKNiAF), U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) funded projects, The Energy for Growth Hub, etc. She is a Legal and Regulatory Consultant for Energy Market and Regulatory Consultants (a member of the MRC Group) She is also a  Partner within the Energy and Infrastructure Projects Unit at the law firm of George Etomi & Partners. Ivie is a member of the Developer Enablers Network (DEN) of InaTide.

Ivie is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy [CEPMLP], University of Dundee. Her PhD (Electricity Law and Regulation) explores legal and regulatory mechanisms, to scale up investments across Sub-Saharan Africa, while exploring the intersection between energy access and the energy transition. Ivie is an Electricity Sector Sustainability Transformation Expert, she helps governments and businesses with their national and corporate re-engineering agenda from a legal, policy, governance, regulatory and strategy viewpoint. She has and continues to advise potential investors seeking to invest in on-grid and off-grid projects across Africa on the legal, regulatory, and commercial framework governing electricity projects and energy projects in general. 

Ivie is a subject matter expert on Power Purchase Agreements and other electricity sector related contracts and associated contractual arrangements.

Outside work, Ivie enjoys spending quality time with her family, charitable initiatives and catching up on Netflix movies.

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