JJ Enoch

JJ is an Associate in the Strategy & Risk Advisory unit of J.S. Held. He focuses on advising clients in the telecom and FMCG sectors about investments in Anglophone West Africa and development in West Africa’s regional bloc, ECOWAS. JJ is also a key member of the team's due diligence and investigative practice where he has conducted high-profile investigations across every region in sub-Saharan Africa and some countries in Asia and Europe. JJ’s recent work includes mandates for a European development finance institution, such as an investigation into one of East Africa’s largest financial institutions, and another into the one of the largest investors in Africa.

Before joining J.S. Held, JJ interned at Eurasia Group. He also worked at the West Africa Civil Society Institute in Accra, Ghana, supporting policy-influencing initiatives across all fifteen West African countries. Additionally, he worked at the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation, where he helped build Nigeria's first-ever index that evaluates the performance of public institutions. JJ holds an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford, where he was a scholar at St. Antony's College. He is also a qualified lawyer and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bowen University, Nigeria.