Rosalind Kainyah, MBE

Founder | Kina Advisory

Rosalind Kainyah MBE is a trusted advisor to Boards and Senior Executives of global companies on responsible business investment and partnerships in emerging markets. She is also an experienced professional non-executive director, chairing Sustainability, Nominations, Remuneration and Governance Board Committees.

In her advisory role, Rosalind ensures that companies have positive socioeconomic impacts on the countries in which they operate, whilst realising optimal financial value. She has advised companies across a variety of sectors including the energy sector (both conventional and renewable energy), oil & gas, mining, private equity, financial services, healthcare, agriculture, consumer goods, real estate, manufacturing, logistics, chemicals and technology.

Rosalind has almost 30 years of combined international, senior management, executive and board level experience. Over the span of her career, Rosalind has worked with companies and organisations on projects across Africa, in Western and Eastern Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the South Pacific. As a result, she has wide network and is respected across a range of stakeholders from governments and corporates through civil society organisations and media for her professional expertise and as a woman of integrity and credibility.

As an environmental lawyer for almost a decade from the early 1990s, Rosalind advised international organisations and governments on environmental policy and legislation. She went on to be a corporate lawyer at the international law firm, Linklaters, and a corporate and commercial lawyer and Executive Direct at the De Beers Group Diamond Trading Company. Before starting Kina Advisory in 2014, she was Vice President, External Affairs and CSR at Tullow Oil plc

Rosalind is a member of the Bar of England and Wales. She is a Non-Executive Director of CAL Bank Limited, Ghana; Vice Chairperson of the Africa Gifted Foundation; Founding President of the Ghana chapter of International Women’s Forum; and on the Advisory Boards of Invest in Africa. Rosalind has been a Non-Executive Director of the Norwegian oil company, Aker Energy, and of the GEMS Africa, the African subsidiary of the world’s leading private schools’ company.

In 2014 Rosalind was awarded an MBE for services to CSR for the benefit of youth in Africa. In 2019 she was selected as one of the top 50 leading female professionals by Cranfield University and in 2016 named by Forbes Afrique Magazine as one of the 100 influential women on the African continent. She was selected as one of Britain’s most influential people of African and African Caribbean heritage by The Power List in 2008.