Gerald B. Tanyi is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Chief Counsel of the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). Since joining the IFC in 1999, he has held a wide range of senior roles in the IFC Legal Department, including Manager, Global Client Services and Strategic Initiatives, and Regional Head for Africa. A globally recognized expert on development finance who has practiced in both common law and civil law systems, Tanyi speaks and writes widely, including in such fora as Nigeria’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission and the Paris Investor Breakfast Forum. He previously taught infrastructure finance as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. From 1994 to 1999, Tanyi practiced as an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, where he specialized in corporate and international project finance. He earned a J.S.D. and LL.M. at Yale Law School and a Maîtrise en Droit and Licence en Droit from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Tanyi completed advanced studies in banking and capital markets at the University of Geneva’s Centre d’Etudes Juridiques Européennes. He serves on the Advisory Board of Yale Law School’s Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
