The Road to a Career in International Law with Liz Wangu '16

In this episode of the Duke Law Podcast, Liz Wangu '16 stops by the booth following a lunch-time discussion at Duke Law, sharing her insights with students on pursuing a career in international project finance in today's legal market. Approaching her fifth year at Clifford Chance's D.C. office, Wangu is currently on secondment as a legal counsel at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. At Clifford Chance, Wangu focuses her practice on international project finance (energy & infrastructure), corporate finance, and other cross-border development finance transactions. For this episode, Jabrina Robinson, director of LLM Career Development and Outreach at Duke Law's Office of International Studies, sits down with Wangu for a conversation that ranges from her well-traveled upbringing–residing in parts of Africa and Europe before emigrating to the U.S.–to how her desire to effect positive change through the law fueled her academic and professional aspirations. Wangu also reflected on her time at Duke Law, citing some of her most important faculty, peer, and course influencers. >> Listen to Duke Law Podcast: - Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-duke-law | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5KvBAK4hNfuYFLva7dtW1X. | Transcript https://law.duke.edu/transcripts/TRANSCRIPT-Duke-Law-Podcast-Interview-Liz-Wangu.pdf