Professor George Nwangwu has over 25 years of experience as a lawyer and academic in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. He is also a chartered accountant, financial consultant, and public policy professional. He is a leading expert on project finance law and private sector-led finance for infrastructure in Africa. His research in these areas has been cited widely.

Professor Nwangwu served as a DFID/World Bank funded consultant with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as Special Adviser to the Director General. He was also PPP Project Coordinator and Head of the PPP Division at the Federal Ministry of Finance, and later a special adviser to the Coordinating Minister of the Economy on PPPs and infrastructure finance.

Currently, he is an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University's Department of Mercantile Law. To date, Professor. Nwangwu has led transaction teams in the delivery of over 100 privatisation/ PPP/ climate finance transactions worth over USD 20 billion, working either on the side of the public sector or private sector in Africa. He has founded and co-founded several thriving companies in Nigeria and serves on various boards.

He holds an LL.B (University of Lagos), LLM (University College London), Ph.D. (University of Hull), and MBA (University of Oxford).