Chid Liberty is an award-winning social entrepreneur and impact investor. In 2010 he co-founded Liberty & Justice after a career in entertainment, technology, and finance. Chid was born in Liberia, West Africa, but left as an infant when his father became the nation’s ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, with residence in Bonn. His family later sought refuge in the United States from Liberia’s deteriorating political situation.
In 2009, Chid returned to Africa after 28 years abroad. Inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize winning Liberian Women’s Peace Movement, Chid co-founded Africa’s first Fair Trade Certified™ apparel factory to provide economic opportunities for internally displaced women, who on balance, were vulnerable to rampant unemployment and economic exclusion. In addition to his work at Liberty & Justice, Chid served as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Liberia’s Monrovia Business Startup Center (BSC). The BSC was founded by Spark, a Dutch NGO, for whom Chid managed the Ignite Fund – an equity investment fund making strategic investments in companies with high growth potential in conflict-affected states. Chid speaks internationally on social entrepreneurship and impact investing with past lectures at Stanford, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, as well as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and IE in Madrid, Spain. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Leadership at the Parson's School of Design, the top ranked fashion design school in the world. Chid was also Managing Partner of Liberty Friedman, an impact-driven fund manager where he acquired and turned around The Dutchess, a sustainable hospitality business that was acquired by a leading hotel group in 2022. He is currently Co-founder and CEO of Apprentos, an AI-driven tech platform in workforce development.
Chid was recognized by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in her 2011 State of the Nation Address for his leadership in shaping trade policy and indigenous Liberian entrepreneurship. He is a 2020 Ashoka & Ikea Dela Globalizer Fellow and a 2018 C&A Fabric of Change Fellow, both awarded to social entrepreneurs pursuing system level change in retail supply chains. He was also named by Quartz as one of 30 groundbreaking African Innovators of 2017. Chid also works as an advisor and board member to a number of high-impact organizations including The Unreasonable Group and Unreasonable Capital, Sorenson Impact Foundation, Transform Finance, and the Georgie Badiel Foundation, which was founded by his wife, former Miss Africa, top model, author, and activist Georgie Badiel-Liberty to bring clean drinking water to communities in her home country of Burkina Faso.
Chid holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.