Nania Owusu-Ankomah Sackey

Partner, Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah, Ghana

Nania is a litigation and arbitration practitioner and a Partner at Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah in Ghana. She regularly advises and represents clients in a range of high value cross-border litigation and arbitration disputes, and is particularly noted for her innovative approach to solving complex legal issues. She sits as an arbitrator and is listed on CPR’s Panels of Distinguished Neutrals and the Ghana ADR Hub List of Arbitrators. She is a member of the Court of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), an officer of the LCIA African Users’ Council and a board member of LACIAC. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Africa Arbitration Group of the IBA Arbitration Committee, after previously serving as editor of the IBA Arbitration Committee Newsletter. 

Nania has been recognized as one of Africa’s 50 Most Promising Young Arbitration Practitioners (2020) by the Association of Young Arbitrators and was named a Rising Star by Africa Arbitration (July 2019). She has also been featured as a ‘Woman to Watch’ by the African Institute of Women in Law and was a member of the Task Force for the Commonwealth International Arbitration Study commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat. She is a lecturer in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Ghana School of Law and is called to the bar in England and Wales and in Ghana.