Francis Chukwu is Senior Counsel at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group (housing the World Bank Group Guarantees Platform) where he collaborates with teams across the World Bank Group in using guarantee instruments to facilitate cross-border investments in developing countries. Prior to joining MIGA, Francis worked as an international project and corporate finance lawyer at the Paris (France) office of Clifford Chance, as a Research Officer at the International Monetary Fund, and as a dispute resolution and corporate/commercial advisory lawyer at the Lagos (Nigeria) office of Aluko & Oyebode. Francis holds a PhD in Law from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), an LLM from New York University School of Law (United States), and an LLB from University of Nigeria (Nigeria). He is admitted to the bar in New York and Nigeria.