Femi Oke

Femi Oke is a weather anchor for CNN International's World Weather service, based at the network's global headquarters in Atlanta. In this role, Oke presents weather segments for 'Your World Today' and 'World News'.

In 2005 Oke covered the historic elections in Liberia, where she interviewed former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, presidential candidate and soccer star George Weah and Africa’s first female head-of-state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Her trip to Liberia came under a fellowship she was awarded by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Oke has assisted the United Nations World Meteorological Organization with training international broadcast meteorologists in Argentina and Mozambique. Speaking and lecturing credits include the University of Liberia, Emory University, University of South Carolina, European Commission, World Food Programme in Rome and the United Nations Development Programme in New York, Nairobi and Monrovia.

Since joining CNN in 1999, Oke has reported on a wide variety of science and feature stories including reporting live from the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002. Oke most recently spent several months as a correspondent at CNN's bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa, reporting from Angola, Burkina Faso and Kenya.

In 2007 Oke’s work in Africa was recognized by The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Communications Agency with the presentation of the “African Achievers Award 2007”.

Oke worked as a weather presenter for both London Weekend Television and Carlton Television in London, England before joining CNN. She has also hosted, reported for and produced news and current affairs programs, science, educational and entertainment shows throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, the Caribbean and the United States. Memorable moments include wrestling with a crocodile in the mangroves of Jamaica, presenting the United Kingdom's longest running music show "Top Of The Pops" for the BBC and reporting from a British Antarctic Survey Refrigerator in temperatures of minus 37 Celsius.

Her career began when she was 14 years old, as a junior reporter for the UK's first talk radio station LBC. Oke joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a radio reporter after graduating from University. She received her bachelors degree in English literature and language from Birmingham University in England. Oke is British by birth and Nigerian by parentage.