TAGBO GOZIE AGBAZUE

Tagbo Gozie Agbazue

Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court, Federal Republic of Nigeria

Mr. Tagbo is a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He also holds a Masters degree in the field of Gender Studies from the University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. As a lawyer, Mr. Tagbo specialises in corporate governance in addition to broader sustainability issues pertaining to public and private sector corporations in Africa. Mr. Tagbo has worked as a legal practitioner for Charles Ogbo & Associates in Nigeria and has lectured law at the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria. Mr. Tagbo is a consultant for Edward Nathan (South African leading corporate law advisers), where his endeavours include corporate governance advisory services to major public and private sector corporations in Africa. Also, Mr. Tagbo is an expert resource person on corporate governance to the NEPAD Secretariat, the World Bank/IFC, the Pan African Consultative Forum on Corporate Governance and the South African Government. Currently, Mr. Tagbo is the Project Co-ordinator at the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC), advising the South African Government on the corporate governance aspect of the country’s Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) review process as well as the corporate law reform programme. Mr. Tagbo was part of the team that developed the Framework for the APRM and has authored several publications on the corporate governance in Africa and the role of business in development.