5 March 2021

Susan Barbara-Kumapley chooses to challenge!

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International Womens Day 2021

In celebration of International Women’s Day which takes place on 08 March, we get to know some of LEX Africa’s leading women.

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Susan is a Partner and the Head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice Group at Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah. She has a background in telecommunications regulation having worked as a specialist in that area from 2005 to 2010 for Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited.

She obtained her LLB degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana. She has to her credit: the 1993 Mensah-Sarbah Award for best overall student and the 1993 Koi Obuadaban Larbi Prize for Criminal Procedure from the Ghana School of Law; an MBA in Finance and Information Management from Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart Graduate School of Business in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America; and an LLM with Honours from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.

Adjorkor lectured the International Environmental Law module of the MBA Oil and Gas Management programme of Ghana Technology University College in 2011 and 2012. In September 2012, she co-lectured the legal Aspects of Computing module of the MSc Forensic Computing programme at the Ghana Technology University College. She joined the law firm of Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah in October 2010 as a partner responsible for ICT and IP (now Technology, Media & Telecommunications).

Adjorkor is a co-contributor to the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Ghana Chapter, Getting the Deal Through – Telecoms and Media published by Law Business Research Ltd, in the United Kingdom.

She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

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