NJ Ayuk - CEO and Founder of Centurion Law Group Pty. Ltd.
                     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.
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.
NJ Ayuk
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 
Nigeria’s delegation to OPEC, and from 1993 to 2008, 
served as Nigeria’s National Representative on the 
Organization’s Economic Commission Board. In 2006, he 
served as Acting Secretary General of OPEC, and 
represented Nigeria on OPEC’s 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 Nigeria’s 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 country’s 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.
NJ Ayuk
CEO of Centurion Law Group
After earning a bachelor’s 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 master’s 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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