Biography
Obinna Chris Dike holds a PhD in Energy and Natural Resources Law, with specialist focus in the law and
policy of community agreements in structuring social investment undertakings in the energy and natural
resources sectors, from Dundee University. He obtained his LL.M in Petroleum Law and Policy, also from
Dundee University, LL.B from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria and BL from the Nigerian Law School.
He has written a number of academic and practice articles and a handbook on community agreements and
development law in extractive industries’ context, arbitration and foreign investment protection.
Similarly, he has participated in some international research projects such as the Nuffield Foundation funded project which focused on regulatory and extractive industries’ attitudes towards Indigenous and Aboriginal title in five countries including Canada, Australia and New Zealand; and another on the responsibility for disused/residual offshore oil and gas installations in jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Nigeria.
Furthermore, he is a consummate legal practitioner with qualitative experience in commercial legal practice,
dispute resolution, energy and natural resources law, insolvency, mergers and acquisition, corporate
restructuring and consultancy practice, in Nigeria and the United Kingdom
