Kiran Yoliswa

Kiran leads Facebook’s work with community leaders across Africa and the Middle East to support them in starting, growing and sustaining meaningful communities that impact people’s lives. She also co-leads Facebook’s Black employee network in London, Black@London, building the internal community and professional development of the Black community. She has over a decade’s worth of experience spanning community building, entrepreneurship and using technology as a tool for social and economic change. This includes helping build The Africa List – a community of senior African business people driving economic change across Africa for the UK’s Development Finance Institution – CDC Group, as well as co-founding the African fashion e-commerce platform Styled By Africa. She is passionate about contributing to Africa’s digital story, mobilising communities of change-makers, the creative economy, authentic leadership, and scalable economic development in African countries. Kiran holds an MSc in International Development with a focus on the politics and economics of Sub-Saharan Africa from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.