Gbadebo Chinedu Patrick Rhodes-Vivour, well known as GRV, is a Nigerian architect, human rights activist, and politician known for his legal expertise and advocacy for good governance was born on March 8, 1983, in Lagos Island, Nigeria.

He pursued his primary and secondary education at Chrisland Primary and Secondary Schools up to JSS 3 and then, moved to Paris and attended École Active Bilingue, where he completed his secondary education. He graduated from the University of Nottingham with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a master’s degree in the same field from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He later attained a second master’s degree in Research and Public Policy from the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

In 2023, Rhodes-Vivour contested the Lagos State gubernatorial election as the gubernatorial candidate for the Labour Party (LP), which he lost to the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Rhodes-Vivour was initially one of the nominees gearing up to contest under the PDP but decamped to the Labour Party before the primary election was held. He was the senatorial candidate of the People's Democratic Party for the Lagos West senatorial district in the 2019 senate elections.

He is the son of Barrister Olawale and Mrs. Nkechi Rhodes-Vivour. Bode Rhodes-Vivour, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, is his uncle. At the same time, the late judge Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour is his grandfather and the great-grandson of the second indigenous judge appointed in Nigeria, Steven Bankole Rhodes. He’s outrightly from a family of lawyers.

Rhodes-Vivour is married to Dr. Ify Rhodes-Vivour, a molecular geneticist by profession, and daughter of the former military administrator to Kogi and Borno states, Augustine Aniebo.

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