Professor Uzo Iwobi CBE
Co-founder Black Welsh Music Awards
Uzo is a qualified lawyer by profession, she was called to the Nigerian Bar.
She was a Strategic Advisor to the Police National Diversity Team based at the Home Office.
She was a Commissioner to the Commission for Racial Equality UK
Uzo was one of two people from Wales highlighted by National Lottery Heritage Cymru to have her image highlighted on Stonehenge for her voluntary contributions to culture and heritage in Wales.
She is the Chief Executive of Race Council Cymru – which is an Antiracism umbrella body in Wales. She is also the founder of African Community Centre in Wales.
Uzo is a founding member and coordinator of Black History Wales and oversees the work of the Windrush Cymru Elders and served as project director of the Windrush Exhibition called Our Voices, Our Stories, Our History which is touring Wales now.
She was also the producer of the legacy film on the lives and journeys of the Windrush Cymru Elders.
Uzo worked as the first Black woman to be appointed as a Specialist Policy Adviser on Equalities to the Welsh Government advising the Minister for Social Justice and the First Minister for a three year period. In October 2021, Uzo was ranked the 6th out of 15 most influential Black Icons in Wales by Walesonline. Uzo was appointed a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
Fellow of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) and
a Professor at UWTSD, Fellow of Royal College of Arts, fellow of Aberystwyth University,
Fellow of Wrexham University, Fellow of Bridgend College. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In 2021 Uzo was appointed a trustee of Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) which includes Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II honoured Uzo in her Platinum Jubilee Honours List with a CBE for her services to race equality and championing diversity and inclusion.
She is a Vice President at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama