Mrs. Francess Piagie Alghali is currently the Minister of State in the Office of the Vice
President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. She is the Principal Assistant to the Vice-
President and supervises Sierra Leone Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative Unit
(SLEITI) as Chairperson of the SLEITI Multi-Stakeholder Group, the Millennium
Challenge Cooperation Coordinating Unit (MCCU), the Private Public Partnership Unit
(PPP) and the Scaling up Nutrition Secretariat (SUN).
She has over 20 years of experience in administration and management during which
time she has held leadership positions in national institutions. She was Executive
Secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, the National Human
Rights Institution from 2010 to 2015 and has substantial experience in human rights.
She also served as Foundation Registrar of Njala University one of the Public
Universities in Sierra Leone. She holds a B.A Hons. Degree in Modern History, a
Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Master of Education Degree. She has also
attended several conferences and professional development programs on Human
Rights Higher Education Management, Leadership and Strategic Change and Women’s
Leadership, at some of which she has presented research papers, served as resource
person and as facilitator. She was recently appointed a member of the Extractive
Industry Transparency International Board representing Anglophone Africa.