Dr Sandie Okoro OBE

Dr Sandie Okoro is Chancellor of Birmingham University. She was previously Group General Counsel at Standard Chartered Bank and prior to this, served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President, and Vice President for Compliance, at the World Bank Group. Sandie is an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple in the United Kingdom (2018) and was named one of the Upstanding 100 Leading Ethnic Minority Executives (2016), Top 20 Global General Counsel (2019) by the Financial Times, and was recognised as Britain’s fifth most influential person of African and African Caribbean heritage by Powerlist (2018). Sandie was appointed inaugural Chair of The WOW Foundation in June 2021, and is a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company.