SOLOMON S. THOMAS

Director, Corporate Affairs Department

JANUARY 2018 – PRESent

aSSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY to the cabinet and head of the civil service (SCHOCS) 

MARTIN A JIMMY

Director, Cabinet Affairs Department

JANUARY 2024– PRESENT

Martin A. Jimmy is currently the Director of Cabinet Affairs, Cabinet Secretariat, Office of the President. He holds a Master of Science degree in International Development, with pathway in “Poverty, Inequality and Development” from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Arts from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. He has attended several other courses including, “Executive Program in Defence Decision Making” at the Institute for Security Governance, Monterey, California, USA; “Dispute Settlement Understanding” organised by Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (Trapca), Arusha, Tanzania; “Security in a globalised world: New and Emerging Challenges” at the University of New Delhi, India “transformation into e-Government”; held in Cairo, Egypt.

He has over eighteen years’ work experience in the Civil Service of Sierra Leone. He has served as Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Senior Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Trade and  Industry, Senior Assistant Secretary, Office of the Chief of Staff, State House, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources, Deputy Secretary for Policy and Procurement, Ministry of Defence. 

MICHAEL JOHNNY, Ph.D.

Director, Cabinet Implementation, Monitoring and Support Unit (CIMSU)

JANUARY 2019 – PRESENT

Michael Johnny, Ph.D., is the Director of CIMSU.  He was educated in Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Before joining the Cabinet Secretariat, he had worked as a university lecturer and development worker with several organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ); the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA).

Over the years, Dr. Johnny has acquired considerable consultancy experience in baseline surveys, project design, rural finance intermediation, youth and women’s empowerment, and project performance evaluations both in Sierra Leone and internationally

SALIFU A. BANGURA

Acting Assistant Director, Human Resource Management Unit

JANUARY 2018 – PRESENT