Yemi Adeola is a Lawyer at Clifford Chance and Social Intrapreneur. He is an ambitious individual, motivated by a desire to serve others and create meaningful change on a global scale.

Passionate about access to quality education for all young people; Yemi is a School Governor, sits on the advisory boards of the Foundation for Education Development and the Harvard Business Review. Yemi founded Project Access (PA) Midlands to tackle higher education inequality. As Chief of Staff of PA International, he led +250 students serving +4,000 mentors and helped launch the ed-tech startup in the US Ivy League.

As a Charity Board Member of the Young Ealing Foundation, Yemi works to effect positive change for young people by widening provision of youth services. He sat as an Advisory Board Member at Youth Futures Foundation, working in a team to set up their youth advisory panel and deploy £30 million into +170 charities, supporting youth furthest away from the labour market into sustained meaningful employment.

Yemi served as the youngest Board Member in the Royal Society of Arts’ +270 year history and as Fellowship Councillor, elected to represent 10,000 London-based RSA Fellows. In these roles, he conducted an internal consultation, contributing to the RSA’s updated DEI statement and originated a Young Fellowship 74% discount offer for 18-25 year olds to remove financial barriers, democratise opportunity and enable underrepresented young people to join the RSA.

Serving as DEI Officer and Project Lead (2023-25) for Global Shapers London Hub II, Yemi helped to build an inclusive culture of belonging, as part of the leadership team recruiting and developing young leaders. He founded one of the hub’s most successful projects, Fix Our Future, to equip youth with the skills needed for the future of work by building a climate problem-solving toolkit and sustainability professionals’ mentorship database to close network and actionable information gaps.

Partnering with Clifford Chance and Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute, Yemi mobilised his team to work with 5 state schools in low opportunity areas, delivering 10 Fix Our Future experiential learning workshops, raising the aspirations of +300 young people to break into meaningful careers and use their agency to take ownership of building climate-resilient communities. Yemi has been a Guest Lecturer at Warwick Business School, and taught final-year undergraduate level courses on practically applying social intrapreneurship to drive social impact within public, private and third sectors.