Olubanke King Akerele
Politician
Liberian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2010.
She studied at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and then graduated from Brandeis University.
She replaced veteran diplomat George Wallace as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2007.
She is the granddaughter of Liberia's 17th president, Charles D. B. King.
She served in the cabinet of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.