Dayo Olopade
Dayo Olopade leads content partnerships for Africa at YouTube, working with broadcasters, production companies, record labels, traditional publishers and independent media across the continent as an active supporter of Google’s Next Billion Users initiative.
She began her career as a reporter in Washington covering politics, policy, and the Obama administration. She spent two years in Nairobi as a New America Foundation fellow, reporting The Bright Continent, a book on innovation, technology and opportunity in Africa published in 2014 and adapted for film in 2016.
While completing a JD/MBA at Yale, Dayo worked with startups and at Reuters, and helped build and grow the pathbreaking “NYT Now” mobile app at the New York Times. As a partnerships manager at Facebook, she led high touch business strategy and innovation practice with US media brands, and products like Facebook Live, Instant Articles, and 360 Video. She managed international growth programs, including engagement for Mark Zuckerberg’s first trip to the African continent.
She is a member of the African Leadership Network and an advisor to growth stage businesses. She has been a cord-cutter since 2009, and lives in London.
