Adwoa Ankoma

Previously, Adwoa served as legal counsel at South Africa’s National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), where her work included legislative reform, film incentives and international co-production frameworks. She subsequently held legal, public policy and government relations roles at the Wikimedia Foundation and TikTok, engaging with policymakers and regulators across African markets. A Fulbright Scholar, Adwoa holds an LLM specialising in Entertainment, Media and Technology Law and Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Through her work at Electric South, she advocates for policies that recognise creative technologies as drivers of innovation, investment and economic growth.