Chido Cleopatra Mpemba is the Youth Envoy at the
African Union Commission where she assists in championing youth development issues in Africa.
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. Chido took over
from Aya Chebbi from Tunisia. 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 Arts, Sport, and Recreation in her country, Zimbabwe. 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.