Sabrina Dhowre Elba (Saabiriin Dhoore)

Who is she?

Sabrina Hibo Dhowre, Lady Elba, is a Canadian model, media personality and businesswoman of Somali descent (Wikipedia, Sabrina Dhowre). She was born in Montreal on 16 June 1989, the second of five children raised by a single mother, and moved to Vancouver at 12 (same source). She studied philosophy at Simon Fraser University (same source). Her mother is Maryam Egal (same source).

Modelling

She has appeared in British Vogue and Elle, was crowned "Ms. Vancouver" in 2014, and is with IMG Models in London (Wikipedia).

UN and charity work

In April 2020 she was appointed a goodwill ambassador for IFAD, the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (Wikipedia). With her husband Idris Elba she helped launch a $40 million IFAD fund to soften the effect of COVID-19 on rural food producers (same source). In January 2023 they received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where she spoke on food insecurity in Sudan, Haiti, Somalia and elsewhere (same source). She became co-chair of Global Citizen's European board in 2022 (same source).

Other work

With Idris Elba she is developing an Afrofuturist animated series, Dantai, and in 2022 they founded the wellness brand S'ABLE Labs (Wikipedia). They married in Marrakesh in April 2019 (same source).

In short

A Somali-Canadian model who works with the UN on small farmers and rural food.