Lela Kogbara
Lela is Co-chair of Social Finance and a director at Place Matters whose mission is to ensure that communities are at the centre of tackling the root causes of inequality to create sustainable, systemic change.
Board Co-Chair
Lela has spent most of her personal and professional life trying to shift the needle on inequity and injustice.
She was previously a senior leader in local government for 25 years, advisor to the Department for Education and NHS England and co-founder and director of Black Thrive Global.
Having been an activist in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, she is now a trustee of the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Trust and is also a trustee of DFN Project Search.