Orikolade Adebayo Karim

Mr. Kola Karim is the Group Managing Director/CEO of Shoreline Energy International (Shoreline), a leading industrial group focused on energy and power investments in Sub Saharan Africa. Mr. Karim has built shoreline over the past 20 years into a leading integrated energy company with operating assets in the upstream, midstream and downstream business.

Mr. Karim balances his business interests with a passion for contributing to development and education across the continent. He has championed a pan African agenda at the Harvard Centre for African Studies where he sits on the advisory board with a specific focus on building a Pan African resource centre with an initial centre already launched in South Africa. Mr. Karim Serves on the Africa Advisory board of the London Stock Exchange and is a Young Global Leader Award Honouree (2008), a pioneer and an active member of the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals of the World Economic Forum. He has delivered opinion and position papers at international conferences, investment forums, business schools and universities. Mr Karim holds an LLM Masters of Laws – International Business Law. He joined the Board of A.G Leventis (Nigeria) Limited on December 6, 2012