Kina Team

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 Director in De Beers Group. Prior to founding Kina Advisory in 2013, she was Vice President, External Affairs and CSR at Tullow Oil plc.

Over the span of her career, Rosalind has worked with and on projects for multinational companies, international organisations, local African businesses, and public sector agencies across Africa, Western and Eastern Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the South Pacific. As a result, she has a wide network of contacts and relationships covering companies, governments, multilateral organisations, Non-Government organisations, academia, members of the diplomatic corps and other influencers.

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 The Boardroom Africa and Invest in Africa. Rosalind has been a Non-Executive Director of Aker Energy and of the GEMS Africa.

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.

Reshma brings practical experience of working in highly complex operating environments having led and worked on areas such as M&A; contract and legislation negotiations with Governments; litigation and arbitration; new country due-diligence and set-up; developing, implementing and managing strategy, risk and performance management standards and processes; managing cross-functional infrastructure projects; Government, Public and External Affairs; Social Performance; Local Content and Capacity Building; Land Acquisition; Water Resources; Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) studies; Security and Conflict Management; and Social Economic Investments including strategic partnerships. Her work to date has been at both corporate and operational levels with experience ranging from Board and Senior Leadership to working with communities on the frontline. Some of the corporates she has worked for include KPMG UK, Shell, BP, Tullow Oil Plc as well as some small to mid-cap organisations.

She has built best-in-class ESG & Risk Management capability within highly complex operating environments and, as a result, delivered long-term strategic business benefits through embedding ESG, risk and assurance frameworks and operating models into organisational practices. She is known for driving change at top levels of Government, civil society, community and partners, with an outstanding track record of engaging stakeholders and progressing in an organised manner, complex and large-value projects and contracts in politically and socially-sensitive environments; achieving efficiencies and cost control whilst driving the business and ESG agenda.

Reshma holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Manchester in the UK and an Executive MBA from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. She is also a UK qualified Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Advisor.

Yvonne brings a wealth of experience as a business partner, building relationships with key stakeholders, applying analytical and problem-solving skills to engage stakeholders and pinning down their requirements to provide business and performance management solutions. She has held several roles at Nationwide Building Society, Abbey and Lloyd’s Banking Group in the UK and Cedar Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Yvonne has a Masters in Systems Analysis and Design from City University in London and a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Economics with Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.

Helen recently graduated from the University of Exeter with a first-class degree in History, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Helen has experience of grassroots organisations and has worked for NGOs in Uganda, South Africa and Malawi where she assisted organisations in their professionalisation and development. Helen developed an extensive understanding of community engagement and ground-level realities during her time working for grassroots NGOs

Will recently graduated from the University of Exeter with a Bachelor of the Arts in History and is nearing completion of a Master of the Sciences in International Business. Will is also working towards the Chartered Financial Analyst qualification.

Elizabeth graduated among the top of her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration cohort from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana in 2017. Her areas of in-depth study and practical excellence includes marketing, logistics, accounting and finance, and human resource.

Her experience in administration from diverse fields and research is central to achieving KINA’s objectives for businesses operating in Africa.