Chido Cleopatra Mpemba | |
Office: | African Union (AU) Special Envoy for Youth |
President: | Moussa Faki |
Predecessor: | Aya Chebbi |
Term Start: | November 2021 |
Office1: | Advisor to Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation |
Minister1: | Kirsty Coventry |
Term Start1: | April 2020 |
Term End1: | November 2020 |
Birth Name: | Chido Cleopatra Mpemba |
Birth Place: | Zimbabwe |
Nationality: | Zimbabwe |
Movement: | Pan-African youth |
Chido Cleopatra Mpemba (born July 1988) currently serves as the Special Envoy for Youth at the African Union Commission (AUC).[1] [2] She was appointed as the second African Union Youth Envoy by the chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki in November 2021, as the youngest senior official in the history of the African Union and youngest diplomat in the chairperson's cabinet.[3] [4] Chido took over from Aya Chebbi from Tunisia.[5] According to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, the role of the AU Youth Envoy is to assist in championing youth development issues in Africa.[6]
Ms. Mpemba was born in 1988 at the Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Clinic in Harare, was raised in Bulawayo and went to Girls' College High School.[7] Prior to enrolling in an MBA program at Midlands State University, she earned her degree in Labour Organisational Psychology and Human Resource Management from Cape Town University in South Africa. She studied Leadership in Business at Dartmouth College during her Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2016.
Before being appointed to the African Union as the Youth Envoy on 1 November 2021, she had worked as a banker at Standard Chartered Bank, and also worked for the Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation in her country, Zimbabwe. She attended fellowships, served on different board, which her listed below: