Shekou Momodou Touray | |
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Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations | |
President | Ernest Bai Koroma |
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Born | Bonthe,Bonthe District,Sierra Leone | 22 September 1945
Alma mater | Fourah Bay College King's College London (LLB) |
Profession | Lawyer,economist and diplomat |
Shekou Momodou Touray,(born 22 September 1945) is a Sierra Leonean diplomat who served as the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations. [1]
He was educated at Fourah Bay College,Sierra Leone and at King's College London,graduating with an LLB.
A legal practitioner,he previously served as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Sierra Leone. He was a Presidential Appointee to the Law Reform Commission in 2003.
Touray is a member of the Mandingo ethnic group and a native of Bonthe District in southern Sierra Leone. He is married with five children.
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