{"id":"yvonne-aki-sawyerr","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yvonne-aki-sawyerr","language":"en","name":"Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr","name_en":"Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr","name_ne":null,"description":"Politician","headline":"Politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr, OBE is a Sierra Leonean politician and finance professional, who is serving as the current mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital and largest city; she assumed office on 11 May 2018. Prior to becoming head of the Freetown City Council, Aki-Sawyer had worked extensively in the UK financial and professional services industry. She had also taken either pioneering or crucial roles in various charity and public service projects in the UK and Sierra Leone, including participation in the fight against Ebola in 2014 and the subsequent recovery initiatives.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"7 January 1968","date":"1968-01-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Freetown","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3780"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Sierra Leone","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1044"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"accountant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326653"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"All People's Congress","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q385749"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Fourah Bay College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1506926"},{"text":"London School of Economics and Political Science","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174570"},{"text":"Fourah Bay College: University College of Sierra Leone","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58957246"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"mayor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30185"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Officer of the Order of the British Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10762848","date":"2016"},{"text":"BBC 100 Women","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16153104","date":"2020"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Aki-Sawyerr","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr born?","a":"Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was born on 7 January 1968 in Freetown."},{"q":"What positions has Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr held?","a":"Positions held by Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr include: mayor."},{"q":"Where did Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr study?","a":"Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was educated at Fourah Bay College, London School of Economics and Political Science, Fourah Bay College: University College of Sierra Leone."}],"related":[{"name":"Andrew Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrew-johnson"},{"name":"Ehud Olmert","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ehud-olmert"},{"name":"Hussein Khalidi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hussein-khalidi"},{"name":"Ekrem İmamoğlu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ekrem-imamoglu"},{"name":"Nir Barkat","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nir-barkat"},{"name":"Bill Haslam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-haslam"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/yvonne-aki-sawyerr-1eb08309c1.jpg","width":225,"height":226,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Mark Cont","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yvonne_Aki-Sawyerr.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Aki-Sawyerr","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q55238200","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55238200","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr.jpg by Mark Cont (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yvonne_Aki-Sawyerr.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr.jpg — Mark Cont, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr\". DigiNepal. Last updated 9 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/yvonne-aki-sawyerr. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-09T08:54:54Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/yvonne-aki-sawyerr","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/yvonne-aki-sawyerr","ne":null}}