Ayisha Malik Kamara is a Ghanaian legal practitioner with over a decade of experience spanning private practice, international institutions, academia, and civil society. She is admitted to the Bar in Ghana and is a member of the Ghana Bar Association. As Managing Attorney of Kenyiti Law Consult and founding partner of its predecessor firm, Ayisha has built a broad and versatile practice across corporate and commercial law, human and gender rights, intellectual property, and regulatory matters.
Ayisha has gained international legal exposure through her work at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where she served within the Administrative Law Division, and at the Africa Services Committee in New York, where she was a Columbia Law School Public Interest and Government Fellow. She has also undertaken consultancy work across the West African region, with sector exposure in aviation and natural resources.
Beyond practice, she is the Founder and Executive Director of the Asana Memorial Foundation, where she champions initiatives focused on advancing opportunities for the girl child through legal advocacy, education, mentorship and community engagement. Ayisha is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law, where she teaches Gender Rights and Islamic Law at the postgraduate level. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, an LL.B. with First Class Honours from GIMPA, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ghana. She also holds an Advanced Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), London. She is fluent in French, with proficiency in Spanish, and is a native speaker of Hausa.