CHIJIOKE UWAEGBUTE

CHIJIOKE UWAEGBUTE
(Partner and Leader In-sourced Solutions for Tax (West and Central Africa) at PwC)

With 20 years of professional experience across various energy and utilities projects across Africa, Chijioke Uwaegbute is a Partner and the Global Enterprises Tax Solutions (GETS) Leader for West and Central Africa at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Prior to joining PwC, he was regional executive and tax director for Sub-Saharan Africa at General Electric (GE) with a responsibility to manage GE tax compliance and provide advice on tax structuring and tax planning for all GE businesses in the sub-region.

He also worked with KPMG, where he led the Gulf of Guinea tax desk –providing compliance and advisory services to companies operating in the region in the areas of oil and gas, power and mining. As a key member of the firm’s oil and gas practice, he provided tax advisory services to companies in the upstream of the oil and gas sector.