Nana Adjoa Hackman is the managing partner and co-founder of Africa Legal Associates (ALA), a Ghana-based, pan-African corporate law firm. She has over 18 years of legal and advisory experience.

Ms. Hackman is a corporate legal practitioner specialising in corporate governance, banking, and petroleum law. She has provided advice on corporate and legal issues to multinational companies and leading international businesses operating across Africa. She was called to the Ghana Bar in October 2003, when she began private legal practice at Kudjawu & Co, a leading law firm in Ghana. She was until August 2016 the Head of Legal Department and Company Secretary for United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Limited. In 2015 she co-founded ALA.

Ms. Hackman has extensive business experience, having set up and run companies in the media and real estate sectors, at the board level. She was until January 2021 a member of the Board of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. She is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the Society for Petroleum Engineers, and the Energy Institute, and has published several articles on the petroleum industry. Ms. Hackman sits on the global advisory board of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.

In 2020 Ms. Hackman was awarded an EMBA scholarship by Imperial College Business School in partnership with the 30% Club, a campaign that aims to secure gender balance in board rooms across the world. Ms. Hackman has an LLM degree with distinction from the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland.