Sandie okoro biography of rory
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Sandie okoro biography of rory
Sandie Okoro
British lawyer (born 1964)
Sandie OkoroOBE (born 1964)[1] is a British lawyer who serves as general counsel of Standard Chartered Bank,[2] and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
She previously served as senior vice-president and general counsel at the World Bank Group.[3] She has previously been general counsel at Barings Asset Management, and head of legal at Schroders Investment Management International.[4][5]
Early life
Okoro was born in Fulham, London, in 1964, and grew up in nearby Balham.
Her father was a teacher from Nigeria, and her mother a nurse from Trinidad. At the age of nine she decided she wanted to become a judge: she was influenced by the television programme Crown Court, and undeterred by a school teacher, asking the class their chosen careers, who said "Sandie, little black girls from Balham don't become judges."[6]
She attended Putney High School and then studied law