Eddie Ndopu

Eddie Ndopu is a South African disability rights activist and humanitarian who has worked extensively on advocacy and policy around diversity, equity, inclusion, and disability rights. Born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy at age two, he studied public policy at Oxford and became the first African with a degenerative disability to graduate with a master's degree from the university. In 2019, he was selected by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as one of seventeen eminent Advocates for the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.