Ebele Okobi
Trustee and Chair of the Development Board, Young Vic Theatre
Ebele Okobi is a values-led, transformational leader who builds mission-driven organizations bent upon shifting the arc of the moral universe towards justice. She is passionate about disrupting power, directing capital and resources to amplify unheard voices, and supporting creators and entrepreneurs across the African diaspora.
Ebele was a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York, London and Paris, a health policy advocate at Consumers Union, an advisory services director at Catalyst, and she worked in brand strategy across Africa and the women’s business at Nike. Ebele was the Global Head of Human Rights at Yahoo, and built and led Facebook’s first ever Africa and then Africa Middle East and Turkey policy teams.
Ebele is an Independent Member of Council for City University, London, a Trustee of the Young Vic theatre and Development Board Chair, a Frieze 91 Committee member, advisory board member of the Africa Soft Power Project, principal patron of the UK Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale (Sonia Boyce), a patron of the Scotland Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale (Alberta Whittle), and a patron of the Chisenhale Gallery, Mimosa House and the South London Gallery.
She is the mother of dragons-bio mom to a 12 year old daughter and 9 year old boy/girl twins, and foster mom to the brightest light in Harvard Law School’s Class of 2023.
Ebele attended the University of Southern California, Columbia Law School and HEC-Paris. Because rest for Black women is revolutionary, Ebele is thrilled to be on sabbatical for 2022-chasing joy and making good trouble.
