Kenyan blogger and open-government activist Ory Okolloh-Mwangi has been appointed to the board of the East African Breweries Limited (EABL).

 

Digital world guru Okolloh’s appointment to the EABL board as an independent non-executive director takes effect from October 16.


The Kenyan Pundit (@KenyanPundit on Twitter) was speechless on learning of the appointment and only posted this:

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The 42-year-old is also renowned lawyer and is the Director of Investments at Stanbic Bank Kenya subsidiary Omidyar Network and was formerly the Policy Manager for Africa with Google.

 

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 key data.

 

After the 2007 poll chaos, Okolloh also helped create Ushahidi, a site that collected and recorded eyewitness reports of violence via text messages and Google Maps.

 

She runs the Kenyan Pundit blog, which was once featured on the Global Voices Online and worked at Covington and Burling, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and World Bank.

 

Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company appointed her to its board in May 2015 and in March this year Stanbic appointed her as the managing director of its philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network.