Awino Okech (born January 1980) is a Kenyan academic, feminist and professor based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her research and teaching intersects gender, sexuality, conflict, and security studies. She is an adjunct educator and a senior visiting fellow of African Leadership Centre, King's College London, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Feminist Africa.
Awino Okech grew up in Kisumu, Kenya, and her mother was an educator. Okech has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, followed by a master's degree and a PhD from the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town.
Okech is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the African Leadership Centre at King's College London, where she co-convenes the Gender, Leadership and Society module on the Security, Leadership and Society MSc programme.
Okech is based at SOAS, in the Centre for Gender Studies, teaching and researching the nexus between gender, sexuality, conflicts and security studies.
Okech is the founding Director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice at SOAS University of London, which focuses on racial justice and feminist imaginaries rooted in the majority world.
She is also a member of the editorial advisory board of Feminist Africa, a peer-reviewed journal from the African Gender Institute, based at the University of Cape Town. Okech is also a member of the African Security Sector Network, a pan-African scholars and policy advocates network focused on security sector reform.
In October 2025, Okech was appointed Professor of Feminist and Security Studies at SOAS University of London. She delivered her inaugural lecture titled Feminist worldmaking: On knowledge infrastructures and social transformation on 23 October 2025.