Yvonne Okwara is a Kenyan media personality with 14 years experience in radio and television. She has moderated several local and international panels comprising Melinda Gates, Former US Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, former World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Chairman Monetary Authority of Singapore, Governor Central Bank of Kenya Dr. Patrick Njoroge, Former IMF Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, Bishop TD Jakes, as well as former AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, Executive Director UN Global Compact, Sanda Ojiambo, Peter Ndegwa, CEO Safaricom, Group CEO Equity Bank, Dr. James Mwangi. In 2017, she moderated the Presidential Debates in Kenya.
Yvonne is currently a Senior News Anchor and Editor in charge of Research and Planning at East Africa’s biggest TV channel, Citizen TV. She is a media consultant for Kenya’s National Defence College, and sits on the ENACTUS Business Advisory Council. She chairs the Advisory Board of Africa Uncensored, an independent media house set up by Kenya’s finest investigative journalists. Yvonne is a Bloomberg Africa Leadership Initiative Media Fellow.