Emmanuel S. E. Leigh earned his first degree in Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati, U. S. A. in 1979. He participated in a ten-week course for Public Finance ...view moreEmmanuel S. E. Leigh earned his first degree in Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati, U. S. A. in 1979. He participated in a ten-week course for Public Finance in 1985, conducted at the International Monetary Fund Institute. In 1989 he earned his Masters degree in Business Administration at the University of Birmingham, U. K.
He worked as a senior civil servant in Sierra Leone for over twenty years, holding senior accounting positions at the Treasury and some Government Ministries and Departments.
Mr Leigh is the author of a paper on ‘Government Financial Management in Sierra Leone’ (Unpublished), written for the United Nations Department for Technical Corporation for Development. The paper featured at a mini-roundtable conference in 1989, held in Cyprus for Least Developed Countries.
Between 1989 and 1991, he was a United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Accountant in St Vincent and the Grenadines, West Indies.
He also lectured on part-time basis, at the Institute of Public Administration and Management, University of Sierra Leone.
Mr Leigh’s personal passions are reading, research on world financial issues, football and playing the organ.
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