Amandla Ooko-Omabaka

Amandla is a partner in McKinsey’s Seattle office, leading McKinsey’s global food security initiative and works across food systems in our Agriculture, Consumer Packaged Goods and Sustainability practices. She also plays a pivotal role within The African Agricultural Transformation Initiative (AATI), an innovative partnership to drive inclusive agricultural transformation in Africa. 

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Amandla has co-authored several leading McKinsey articles on integrated land use management, and agriculture in Africa featured in various media—including Africa.com, BBC, Business Daily, CNBC, and CNN—and regularly moderates main-stage sessions at high-level forums on food systems and development, including the African Food Systems Summit (AFS), COP28, and the Tana Forum. Amandla has been recognized on several 100 Most Influential lists including most recently in the New African - “Change Maker”, and Avance Media “Young African” (2022).

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Before joining McKinsey, Amandla served as a lecturer in economics at Strathmore University, and as strategy advisor to several global S&P and FTSE companies, governments and startups including: the Kerry Group, GenPact, the Government of Rwanda and the African Leadership Network.

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She currently chairs the Leadership Council at the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, and sits on several boards including the award-winning FreshLife, part of the Sanergy Collective which includes Regen Organics. She is a Kenyan national with experience living and traveling to more than 50 countries on over five continents.

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