Rushaiya Ibrahim-Tanko

Rushaiya Ibrahim-Tanko is the Global Policy Director at the Energy for Growth Hub, where she co-leads the energy contract transparency, focuses on utility governance, and the intersection of energy, industrialization, and Ghana’s mining sector. Her work focuses on how transparent, well-designed power contracts and regulatory frameworks shape investment, fiscal outcomes, and growth across emerging markets. She is a lawyer with experience in natural resource governance, anti-corruption reform, and public sector accountability. Before joining the Hub, she worked with the Natural Resource Governance Institute,  supporting African governments, civil society, and media on extractives policy, and later served as Technical Advisor to the UK-funded STAAC program, contributing to the enactment of Ghana’s Companies Act reforms and its beneficial ownership register.

Rushaiya holds a PLC from the Ghana School of Law, an LLB from Mountcrest University College, and a BA in Political Science and French from the University of Ghana