Dr. James Edwin
Dr. James Edwin is the Director General and Chairman of the National Monitoring and Evaluation Agency (NaMEA), in the Office of the President, Sierra Leone. He has more than twenty (20) years of professional experience in managing for result across levels of Government, International organizations and private sector. Previously, he worked at the World Trade Organization (WTO), Switzerland, as Head of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Enhanced Integrated Framework covering Fifty One (51) Countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Regions. Previous, he was Principal Evaluator in the Operations Evaluation Department at the Africa Development Bank, Tunisia, and before that was a Professor of Evaluation and Public Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA. Read More
In his home Country Sierra Leone, he worked as lecturer of Economics at Njala University; Deputy Project Manager and Farming Systems Economist of an EU Farming Systems Project; Projects and Planning Officer in the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development; Monitoring and Special Studies Expert in a Social Action and Poverty Alleviation Program in post war Sierra Leone. As a teacher, he taught in primary school, secondary schools, diploma institution, and university. Dr Edwin has undertaken many consultancies with development organizations including UN Agencies, Rockefeller foundation, and undertaken research related work in transport, energy, health, education, agriculture, oil and gas and the environment in renowned institutions such as IFPRI, National Science Foundation of USA, Africa Rice Center, IITA. He was secretary and then chair of the Rice Economists Task Force of West Africa. James Edwin holds a PhD with specialty in planning, monitoring and evaluation from Purdue University, USA.
Director GeneralDr. James Edwin
Deputy Director General
Director - Economy
Manager - HCD