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 Posted - 04 Oct 2018 : 20:32:01
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Justice ministry appoints Dr. Lamin J. Sise as chairperson of TRRC
PRESS RELEASE:
The Ministry of Justice wishes to inform the general public that due to a scheduling conflict Dr. Lamin J. Sise has now been identified as the Chairperson of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) replacing Mr Abdoulie Morikebba Janneh.
Dr Sise also worked for the United Nations for more than thirty years. During the past twenty five years he served as Executive Assistant, Senior Adviser and close confidant of the late Secretary General Kofi Annan. Prior to his association with Mr. Annan, Dr. Sise served in various senior capacities in the Secretariat of the United Nations, including Deputy Legal Adviser of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Senior Legal Officer in the Office of Legal Affairs, Director for Legal Affairs, Human Rights and Special Assignments in the Executive Office of the Secretary General.
From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Sise also served as Senior Adviser to Mr. Annan during the Kenya National Reconciliation and Dialogue when the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission was established following the 2007 electoral crisis in Kenya. Dr. Sise served as Mr. Annan’s Chief of Staff when the latter was appointed as Special Envoy for Syria. Secretaries General Ban Ki Moon and Antonio Guterres also recalled Dr. Sise back into service twice to undertake special assignments.
Dr. Lamin J. Sise was born and raised in The Gambia and received his education in Bansang School, Armitage High School and Yundum College. He taught at the Ngayen Sanjal primary school before pursuing higher education in the United States and the United Kingdom. He holds B.A., M.A. and Ph. D degrees from Johns Hopkins University in the US, as well as an LL.B degree from the University of Cambridge in England.
A bio of Dr. Lamin Sise, Chair of the TRRC:
http://bfsa.jhu.edu/exhibits/exhibit-list/page/4/#openModal-1
Sise, Lamin J.
United Nations Powerhouse and Legal Stalwart
Lamin J. Sise’s life and career can be summed up in six words – well-educated, well-traveled, and well-liked. Not bad for a young man who came to the United States seeking to earn an elite higher education that would put him on the path to professional success. And succeed he did. After earning undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Sise (pronounced See-Say) went on to earn his LL.B degree from the University of Cambridge in England.
A native of The Gambia in West Africa where he was educated at the primary and secondary levels, Sise attributes his academic and professional success directly to Johns Hopkins, a university that when he arrived there enrolled just a few students of color. Sise had transferred to the Homewood campus from Howard University in Washington, D.C. because he said he wanted a more challenging academic environment, as well as a 24-hour library that would allow him to delve deep into his political science and economics studies. He found that, and then some. While a student at Homewood, Sise was invited to dine at the Baltimore home of former JHU President Milton S. Eisenhower who was said to be so impressed with the student that he arranged to give Sise a generous financial aid package as long as Sise kept a strong GPA. Sise accepted with disbelief and relief. He had arrived in the U.S. with pennies in his pocket and worked three, sometimes four jobs, to pay his Howard, then JHU bills.
Upon completing his education, Sise set out to ensure that JHU’s financial gesture to him as an undergraduate student, was not in vain. To this day, he attributes his successful career to Johns Hopkins – a career in which he was employed by the United Nations for three decades in Geneva, Switzerland and New York. Here he worked in various legal capacities and as senior advisor to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. From 1977 to 1983 Mr. Sise served as Deputy Legal Adviser of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. From 1983 to 2007, he served in New York in the Office of Legal Affairs, Department of Peacekeeping Operations and in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Sise, who has worked in over 100 countries, said he owes his successful career entirely to Johns Hopkins. “Imagine me, a poor African boy who has met with dozens of heads of states and every president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama,” Sise said. “I would not have been able to do these things in my career without Johns Hopkins.........
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