Non-Executive Director
Virginia is the Head of Legal, Tax & Regulatory at Harith General Partners. She is responsible for all legal matters regarding Harith’s investments, including due diligence, structuring, negotiation, vetting, comprehensive legal risk analysis and mitigation, as well as the oversight of all shareholder, project and transaction agreements. She is also a director of The Henri Konan toll bridge in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and serves on several other investee sub-committees.
Prior to joining Harith, she worked for South Africa’s premier development finance institution, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). Virginia has worked in equity, debt and project finance in several cross-border Africa investments and projects, including Lake Turkana, Azura and Kelvin Power.
She is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Masters in Law (LLM – Corporate Law) from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg.