Adaora Ikenze

Director of Public Policy, Anglophone West Africa | Meta Platforms Inc.

Adaora Ikenze is the Director of Public Policy for Anglophone West Africa at Meta Platforms Inc. She has worked across Africa, Europe and the US as a lawyer, development expert, political adviser and not-for-profit funder. Prior to joining Meta, 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 is a current trustee of several institutions and organizations including the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, the Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative (US/NG) and the Uzemi Technology Empowerment Initiative (NG). Her former board positions include serving as a founding and 3 term board member of EVA (Education as a Vaccine Nigeria), the African Women’s Development Fund (US) and 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.