Kenyan blogger and open-government activist Ory Okolloh has resigned from the board of Stanbic Holdings Plc with effect from December 9, 2020. 

Okolloh will however remain the chair of the Stanbic Kenya Foundation board even as she did not disclose her reasons for quitting the Stanbic Plc board.

Stanbic in March appointed her as the managing director of its philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network.

This comes only a month after she was appointed to the board of the East African Breweries Limited (EABL) as an independent non-executive director, with effect from October 16.

The 42-year-old digital guru and renowned lawyer was the Director of Investments at Stanbic Bank Kenya’s subsidiary Omidyar Network and was former Google Policy Manager for Africa.

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Okolloh earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2005.

She co-founded parliamentary watchdog website Mzalendo in 2006 to increase accountability in government by recording bills, speeches, standing orders among other key data.

Okolloh also runs the Kenyan Pundit blog once featured on the Global Voices Online.