Victoria Emeafa Hardcastle is a Ghanaian lawyer, energy expert and legal practitioner.
[1] In January 2025, John Mahama appointed her as acting chief executive officer of the Petroleum Commission.
[4] She further had her LLM in banking and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Chevening scholar.
[7] She also participated in the International Lawyers for Africa program at the UK-based law firm Hogan Lovells.
[6] In January 2025 during the vetting process, Hardcastle had an altercation with Frank Annoh-Dompreh, who accused her of calling him "silly".