Chibugo (Chi) Okafor
Bio
Chibugo is an MBA student at the Saïd Business School and a member of New College. She is co-chair of the Oxford Women’s Leadership Alliance, chair of the Oxford Africa Conference and secretary’s committee of the Oxford Union.
As one of the 25 young Nigerian women champions for UN Women Beijing +25, she has over 5 years professional experience working on gender-focused projects across communities, governmental and non-governmental organisations. Chi’s passion and commitment to driving gender parity has led to key engagements between the Houses of Parliament London, Senate of Nigeria, United Nations Addis Ababa and TEDx.
She is also the Founder-President of The Walk with Women and Children; an organisation that leverages off the ‘power of the collective’ to advance the personal, social, health, education and economic rights of girls and women and the CEO of Kendake Honey, a social enterprise focused on utilising the apiculture sector to provide job opportunities for women and youth turning them into sustainable income generators, enforcing food security and wealth creation for the African economy.
She is a qualified pharmacist from King’s College London.
