Francess P. Alghali – Executive Secretary

Francess P. Alghali (B.A. Hons., Dip. Ed., M.Ed.) is an Administrator with over twenty years experience in Administration and Management having served the two public universities in Sierra Leone. She served as Registrar of Njala University which is one of the two public universities in Sierra Leone established by the Universities Act 2005.

 She was one of the key personnel involved in drawing up the initial administrative structures, procedures and the rules and regulations of the University. She has attended several conferences and professional development programmes on Education Management which include the Higher Education Management Programme, University of Oxford and University of Warwick; Leadership and Strategic Change in Higher Education, University of Abertay, Dundee; New Generation Universities Conference in University College Caribou, British Columbia, Canada and the Women as Global Leaders Conference, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her research interest is centred on issues in human resource management with particular reference to personnel policies on which she has presented several research papers at international conferences and issues on women and gender.