Adaora Ikenze is Facebook’s Head of Public Policy for West and Central Africa. She has
worked across Africa, Europe and the US as a lawyer, development expert, political adviser
and not-for-profit funder. Prior to joining Facebook, she held senior positions with the
Global Fund for Women in San Francisco, the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, and the
Open Society Initiative for West Africa in Nigeria. She has also served as consultant to
national and international agencies such as the Ministry of Petroleum Resources (Nigeria),
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), UNIFem and the World
Bank.
She was a founding board member of Education As a Vaccine (Nigeria) and the African
Women’s Development Fund (US) as well as a two-term board member for the Foundation
for Sustainable Development (US). She attended the University of Sheffield in the United
Kingdom and Columbia University in New York USA for her undergraduate and master’s
degrees respectively.