Chido Cleopatra Mpemba (born July 1988) currently serves as the Special Envoy for Youth at the African Union Commission (AUC).

[6] Ms. Mpemba was born in 1988 at the Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Clinic in Harare, was raised in Bulawayo and went to Girls' College High School.

[7] Prior to enrolling in an MBA program at Midlands State University, she earned her degree in Labour Organisational Psychology and Human Resource Management from Cape Town University in South Africa.

[7] She studied Leadership in Business at Dartmouth College during her Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2016.

[4] Before being appointed to the African Union as the Youth Envoy on 1 November 2021, she had worked as a banker at Standard Chartered Bank, and also worked for the Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation in her country, Zimbabwe.