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Lawrence Ampene Larson Darko (30th June,1992) is an entrepreneur, who is a co-founder of Business Africa in Moscow, Russia. He serves as Director for International Cooperation at Business Africa Russia and also the General Director of Urbanus Ghana Limited. In 2017, he was named by Future Africa as one of the 30 change makers under 30 years in Ghana whose innovations in the private sector can be significantly scaled up to the public sector to secure the country's future.

Early life
He was born in Accra, Ghana to Madam Christiana Nyarkoa and Solomon Darko. He inherited his full name from the late Major Rtd Lawrence Ampene Larson.He started his creche and primary education at Adabraka Day Care Centre and New Era Preparatory School. He went to Bediako Memorial Institute, Kasoa where he sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examination. In 2007, he started Senior High School at Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, PRESEC Legon, studied General science with French and completed in 2011. He furthered his education to Volgograd State Technical University, Volgograd Russia earning a BSc in Computer Engineering with a speciality in Telecommunication and Networking. He later furthered to Master in International Business in Volgograd State Technical University and paused after a year of studies. Because of his fluency in the Russian language he participated and got volumes of awards in national academic competitions for foreigners in Russian language.

Career
From 2012, Lawrence during his studies in Russia, was a disc jockey and founder of entertainment company Skip Management LLC. He performed in different night clubs and festivals. He shared the same stage with top Russian artists like Timati, Mot, L'one, Philchansky and Jah Khalib. He also organised music festivals and concerts in Russia for international stars like Tyga, DMX and Soulja Boy. He had different performances in other European countries like Hungary, Finland, Italy, France, Austria and Germany.During this time Lawrence had the opportunity to own night clubs in Russia named Muse and Baron Bar.

He stood for elections in 2015 and won for the position of Organising Secretary of National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS RUSSIA). He served for a year and handed over.

Lawrence after school decided to use the networks he created in Russia to link investors to business opportunities in Africa especially Ghana. In 2018, he co-founded the establishment of Business Africa in Moscow, Russia and serves as director for international cooperation. Business Africa is an established organisation registered under the laws of the Russian Federation whose mission is to represent, support and tighten up relations of business interest between Africa and Russia, for a constant dialogue and for the development of common projects. Lawrence's main aim is creating a favourable environment and promoting Africa as an international business hub in Russia.

As young as he is, he had been able to seal more deals for financing governmental projects in different African countries as well as helping private individual investors with investment consultations in Africa and Russia. He is the General Director of Urbanus Ghana Limited which is a full cycle marketing agency which specialises in the development of comprehensive marketing solutions through visual and delivering services with technology, creativity and data aimed at increasing the efficiency of the clients business.

Controversy
In 2015, Lawrence sued Ghanaian hiphop rapper Sarkodie, for not showing up at a concert he was paid for in Moscow. Artiste was sued for breach of contract in Ghana by the Accra High Court.