Prof. Yinka OmorogbePresident

Professor Yinka O. Omorogbe is the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Edo State; and Chairperson, Edo State Taskforce Against Human Trafficking. Immediately prior to this she was a research professor of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Abuja and Lagos; and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Petroleum Energy Economics and Law (CPEEL), University of Ibadan. She attended the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1979. Prof Omorogbe is an internationally recognized scholar with numerous publications, primarily in petroleum and energy law, and was on the two Oil and Gas Sector Reform Implementation Committees established by President Obasanjo in 2000, and President Yar’Adua in 2007. In the latter, she was the Chairperson of the Legal and Regulatory Subcommittee, which was responsible for drafting the first Petroleum Industry Bill which was submitted to the National Assembly in 2008. She was appointed as a Professor by the University of Ibadan in July 2002. She has also taught at the Universities of Benin and Lagos. She was Head, Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, 2003- 2005, and then Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, from 2005 until January 2009, when she was appointed as Secretary to the Corporation and Legal Adviser, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). She was there until June 2011. She is the first African member of the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the Section on Energy Environment and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association. She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Association for Energy Economics (FNAEE); Gold Medal Awardee, Nigerian Society of International Law; Gold Medal recipient of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT); and Fellow, Emerald Energy Institute, (FEEI). She is the current and first President of the Nigerian Society of International Law (NSIL); first female President of the Nigerian Association for Energy Economics; President of the Association of Energy and Petroleum Law Researchers in Nigeria, and Chair, Committee on Natural Resources, Energy and Environment of the International Law Association (ILA). She is a Member, Body of Benchers; Member, Council of Legal Education; and Member, Edo State Judicial Service Commission, to mention a few of her professional leadership affiliations. Prior to her resumption as Attorney General, she was an independent Director of Heritage Bank PLC, and Salvic Petroleum Company Limited. Prof Omorogbe is a Trustee, Christ Against Drug Abuse Ministry (CADAM); Trustee, Vine Heritage Home, Abuja; Trustee, Edo Women’s Development Initiative (EWDI); and Trustee/ Secretary, Dr Irene Ighodaro Memorial Foundation (DIIMF).