Leadership
Kofi Appenteng
TrusteeKofi Appenteng, a partner at The West Africa Fund and Constant Capital, serves on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. He is chair of the board's Management and Governance Committee and a member of the Executive; Finance; Nominating; and Democracy, Rights and Justice committees.
Previously, Appenteng was a partner at Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP. He joined Thacher Proffitt in 1991 and became a partner in 1994. He had a general corporate practice there and was a member of the Corporate and Financial Institutions Practice Group. Before joining Thacher Proffitt, he was an associate at Webster & Sheffield.
Appenteng is chair of the Africa-America Institute, the Community Service Society of New York, and the International Center for Transitional Justice. He serves on the boards of the Instituto de Empresa Fund, the University of Cape Town Fund and The World Scout Fund. Appenteng is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is trustee emeritus of Wesleyan University.
Born in Ghana, Appenteng attended preparatory and public schools in England. He came to the United States in 1977 to attend Wesleyan University and earned his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law.
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