About
IJEOMA PEARL OKORO
Trustee 2024-28
Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Ijeoma Pearl Okoro has over 30 years of experience leading transformation, market development, and management in the insurance industry.
She holds a bachelor’s in theater arts and a postgraduate degree in management and studied at the Lagos Business School.
In memory of her late father, Okoro founded the Romanus Emeanuru Foundation for Empowerment and Education Development, dedicated to empowering women and local communities.
She volunteers for the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation. She was charter president of her alumni chapter of the Lagos Business School’s Advanced Management Program and a patron of the Egbu Women’s Organization.
Okoro joined Rotary in 1999. She has served as RI learning facilitator, assistant regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, endowment/major gifts adviser, End Polio Now coordinator, regional vice chair of the End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee, and member of the International PolioPlus Committee.
She has been on the Nigeria PolioPlus Committee. Passionate about preserving Rotary history, she helped create the Africa zone group of the Rotary Global History Fellowship and has a stone in
her honor at the Paul Harris Memorial walkway in Chicago.
Okoro will never forget the day the World Health Organization certified Nigeria as polio-free during her term as End Polio Now coordinator. “This was a defining moment for me,” she says. “We
introduced strategies to create awareness and raise funds.”
Okoro received a certificate of appreciation from the Foundation for her leadership efforts in the fight to end polio.
She has received Rotary’s Distinguished Service Award and the Regional Service Award for a Polio-Free World. She is a charter member of the Paul Harris Society and a Benefactor. She and
her husband, Kingsley, are both Rotary Foundation Major Donors and Bequest Society members. They and their two children are Paul Harris Fellows.
