Ethelbert Cooper

Director

Mr Cooper is is a founder of First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Limited. He is an Economics graduate from Yale University and has been active in the African natural resources sector for over 25 years. During the 1980s he devised and led an initiative to restructure what, at the time, was Liberia's biggest industrial project - an iron ore mining company with capital investment of over US$600 million. Mr Cooper also formed Liberia's principal mining parastatal, whose management, marketing and financing requirements were previously contracted to Mr Cooper's companies. Mr Cooper - a Liberian national - led the team that founded Afren.