Sierra Leone

Dr Abubakar Jalloh (Alhaji Abubakaar Jalloh)

High Commissioner

Date of Birth: 1946

Education: Methodists Boys’ High School; Prince of Wales; BA Mathematics and Physics, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; MSc Geophysics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; MSc Atmospheric physics and Hydrogeology, University College, London, UK.

Career: External Examiner, West African Examination Council; Director of Land Resources survey, Minister of Agriculture; Exploration Geophysicist and Geologist, Company Secretary, Executive Director: National Diamond Mining Company; Lecturer of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of the District of Columbia, USA, 1992-2005; Chair of Mathematics and Sciences Department, Sojourner Douglas College, Maryland, USA, 1991-2001; Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Republic of Sierra Leone, 2007-09; High Commissioner, Sierra Leone.