Emilia Onyema

Dr Emilia Onyema is a Professor of International Commercial Law at SOAS, University of London. She is qualified to practice law in Nigeria and as a Solicitor in England & Wales.  She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an independent arbitrator.  She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Cairo Regional Centre for ICA; and she chairs the Advisory Council of the Libya Centre for ICA.  She is also the lead researcher of the SOAS Arbitration in Africa survey reports and she co-authored The African Promise.