Lansana Gberie

Lansana Gberie

Dr. Lansana Gberie is Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations, including the World Trade Centre. He worked for the United Nations for many years, including as Coordinator and Finance Expert of the United Nations Security Council Panel of Experts on Liberia following his appointment by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in 2012. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Ghana. Dr. Gberie is the author of, among others, A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone and War Politics and Justice in West Africa: Essays 2003-2014.

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