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Lex:lead

Lawyers for Economic Advancement and Development

Lawyers for Economic Advancement and DevelopmentLawyers for Economic Advancement and Development

About Lex:lead

Lex:lead was founded in 2010 to continue the work of the Global Challenge, a group that had formed in 2001 under the International Bar Association to bring lawyers worldwide to the issue of development focusing on the least developed countries. Joining the Global Challenge in 2005, Anne was named its director. In 2010 the founding members set up Lex:lead as a New York Not-for-Profit registered charity with US Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.

Lex:lead Directors/Officers:

Ms Anne Bodley

Mr Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Mr Rudolf Ezeani

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(Australia), President/Founder.
Formerly with Allen & Overy and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, London UK.

Mr Rudolf Ezeani

Mr Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Mr Rudolf Ezeani

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(Nigeria), First Vice President and Founding Member. Principal with Rudy Ezeani & Co., Lagos, Nigeria.

Mr Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Mr Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

Mr Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

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(USA/Ghana), Vice President elected January 2015, US Federal Government in Washington DC.

Ms Lemlem Fiseha Minale

Ms Lemlem Fiseha Minale

Mr Lakwame Anyane-Yeboa

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(Ethiopia), Vice President elected March 2018, Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Addis Ababa University School of Law, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

Ms Chioma Ayogu

Ms Lemlem Fiseha Minale

Ms Chioma Ayogu

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(USA/Nigeria), Vice President elected September 2018, with the US Federal Government, Washington DC.

Mr Tola Ariyo

Ms Lemlem Fiseha Minale

Ms Chioma Ayogu

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(UK/Nigeria), Vice President elected June 2020, Goldman Sachs, London School of Economics, London UK.

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

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 (Germany/UK) (2019), Overseas Development Institute and editor of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, London UK. 

Ms Daniella Geller

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

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 (USA), Treasurer. A graduate of Cardozo Law, Senior Legal Analyst with ALM Legal Intelligence, New York, USA. 

Mankah Fombang

Dr Dina Mansour-Ille

Mankah Fombang

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 (Cameroon), Senior Group Secretary. Formerly UN Int'l Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Pan-African Lawyers' Union, Arusha, Tanzania. 

Mr Sipho Limbe

Mr Sipho Limbe

Mankah Fombang

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 (Malawi), Deputy Group Secretary. Formerly UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Tumaini University in Usa River, Tanzania. 

SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD

The Honourable Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

The Honourable Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

The Honourable Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

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(UK) Lex:lead Patron, former UK High Court judge with a family connection to Sierra Leone.

Mr Gunter Fischer

The Honourable Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

The Honourable Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

A business man

(Germany), Formerly with the UN Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, Switzerland.

Mr Stephen Denyer

The Honourable Dame Linda Dobbs DBE

Mr Stephen Denyer

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(UK), Director of Strategic Relationships at the Law Society of England and Wales; formerly a partner at Allen & Overy.

Mr Stuart Kerr

Ariel White Tsimikalis

Mr Stephen Denyer

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(USA) (2019), Africa Practice Coordinator, Jones Day, Washington DC.

Ms Yevgenya Muchnik*

Ariel White Tsimikalis

Ariel White Tsimikalis

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 (USA/Russia), Vice President and Founding Member, General Counsel and Company Secretary to a technology company, Washington DC. 

Ariel White Tsimikalis

Ariel White Tsimikalis

Ariel White Tsimikalis

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 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner  

Pieter Steyn

Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards

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 LEX:Africa Alliance 

Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards

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  Travers Smith 

Matt Sparkes

Chris Edwards

Matt Sparkes

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Advisory Board

• Dr Sabine Midderhoff (Germany) (2011), GIZ, Lusaka Zambia
• Ms Zara Watkins (USA), Cyberlaw Studio, New York, USA
• Ms Ariuntuya (Ari) Rentsen (Mongolia), Sydney, Australia
• Mr Jérôme Poitou (France/Guadeloupe), New York, USA
• Mr Matthew Weldon (USA), K&L Gates, New York, USA

• Mr Guot Gabriel Manang (South Sudan), Gabriel Law Firm, Juba, South Sudan

• Ms Catherine Maunder (UK), Cardiff, UK

• Mr Francis Sinsai* (Cameroon), Goma, DRC

• Ms Martha Haile (Ethiopia), Washington DC, USA 

• Mr Olukayode Majekodunmi (Nigeria/Canada), Canada 

• Ms Fatima Paras (Australia), Sydney, Australia

• Ms Ines Chibani (France/Tunisia), Paris

• Ms Pamela Fapohunda (UK/Nigeria), London UK

• Ms Anita Alfred Kyaruzi (Tanzania), Arusha, Tanzania 

Join Lex:lead!

The group welcomes applications to join its work, typically through appointments to its advisory board. To join us complete the attached form and email it to us at lexlead@yahoo.com.  Thank you!

Lex:lead Membership Application Forms (pdf)Download

Contact us

To join our mailing list or address any questions to us, contact:

Lex:lead
302A W12 Street, No 280
New York, New York 10014, USA

Old address (expired 24 March 2015):
676A Ninth Avenue No 109
New York, New York 10036, USA

London address:
95 Wilton Road No 364
London SW1V 1BZ, UK

The Global Challenge can be reached at:
Email: theglobalchallenge@yahoo.com 

Privacy policy:

Protecting your information is important to us. Read our privacy policy and use of information.

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Lex:lead Newsletters:

December 2010: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2011: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2012: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2013: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2014: End-of-year newsletter (bumper issue!) (pdf)Download
December 2015: End-of-year newsletter (winner profiles!) (pdf)Download
December 2016: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2017: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2018: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2019: End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download
December 2020 End-of-year newsletter (pdf)Download

Other publications:

May 2016: 2014 Winner Bereket Alemayehu Hagos, Is ADR a Knell for Litigation in Africa? See: International Bar Association
Sept 2016: Lex:lead: Foundation Funding Launches Annual Scholarship Competition, See: International Bar Association Foundation
Sept 2017: Charity: Changing Legal Lives, See: Law Society Gazette
July 2019: Taxation in Digital Services: Uganda's Social Media Tax Law, by Moses Baguma, (World Bank Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development newsletter)
July 2019: American Bar Association International Legal Developments Year in Review (2018), Africa (p.465). 

Feb 2021: The Legal Impact of Covid19, American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law

International Bar Association (pdf)Download
International Bar Association Foundation (pdf)Download
Law Society Gazette (pdf)Download
Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development newsletter (pdf)Download
ABA COVID19 Newsletter (12Feb2021) (pdf)Download

Select testaments

"The opportunities and award I got from Lex:lead were indispensable in my progress and I would like to encourage my fellow Lex:leaders to seriously pursue them," 2014 Scholarship Winner and appellate judge Nahom Abraham Weldeabzgi (Eritrea), April 2019.


'[The Lex:lead award helped] a whole lot. If I hadn't paid that much I would have lost my place in school. I would have dropped out [but] paying the money I was awarded [...] bought me some time to source [funds] for this year's registration [...] The award was what helped me.... thank you so much again,' 2017 Scholarship Winner Nkandu Kunda Chota (Zambia), February 2018.

Other programs we want to tell you about:

1. International Lawyers for Africa, www.ilfa.org.uk
2. International Law Book Facility, www.ilbf.org.uk
3. Inherit Your Rights, www.inherityourrights.org
4. The Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development (www.globalforumljd.org) (we're a member)

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