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Francisca Kusi-Appiah is a legal scholar specialising in energy and natural resources law, competition and consumer protection laws, and sustainable development. Currently serving as the Vice Dean of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Law School, her expertise lies in electricity market regulation, with a focus on market structures, competition law enforcement, and energy security, particularly regarding sustainable energy practices in sub-Saharan Africa. She leads the UPSA Legal Clinic and is the Law School representative at the Centre for Climate Change Law and Policy (CCCLAP).

Notably, she has spearheaded the development of three LLM programmes at UPSA, which cover Competition and Consumer Protection Law, Natural Resources and Climate Change Law, and International Business and Commercial Law. She received the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) Regulatory Research Award and was a visiting energy justice research scholar at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), France, where she examined the intersection of competition law and energy justice. She is a prolific researcher and has published numerous works, including a book entitled Consumer Rights and Justice in Ghana.

Before, transitioning into academia, she gained legal practice experience working with law firms in Ghana and in the United States of America. She is the founder and senior legal managing consultant of K-App Law, a legal consultancy that provides legal services on energy and natural resources regulatory compliance, competition and consumer protection law, while also engaging in capacity building and stakeholder interactions. Her academic credentials include a PhD from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) at the University of Dundee and an LLM in Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Law from the University of Houston Law Centre, Texas. She holds an LLB from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Faculty of Law, Kumasi, Ghana. She was admitted to the Ghanaian Bar in 2009."