Gibril
Faal

Professor Gibril Faal is a multi-disciplinary business and development executive. He is the co-founder and director of GK Partners specialising in socially responsible business models, sustainable development and programme implementation. He is a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the director of the Migration and Sustainable Development in The Gambia (MSDG) Technical Cooperation Programme. He is also a council member of Carnegie African Diaspora Program and Lead Consultant to the African Union Commission on innovative, development and diaspora finance. He serves as a technical expert and special adviser to development institutions and governments across the world. In the early 2000s, he was one of the small team of experts that worked on a Department of Trade and Industry project to develop UK’s social enterprise business support, legal and financing structures. In 2003, he founded RemitAid™ as a mechanism to transform remittances into a sustainable form of development finance.

Prof. Faal has previously served as: vice chair of Bond, the network of UK NGOs working on international development; chairman of AFFORD-UK, the pioneering diaspora-development charity; founding director of ADEPT (Brussels); magistrate in Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service; technical expert to the United Nations, World Bank, European Union, University of Oxford, Abu Dhabi Dialogue, Swiss, German and many other development institutions. In 2017, he served overarching expert for the Global Compact for Migration, and has addressed the UN General Assembly several times. In the past 30, he has been appointed to various strategic, development and management boards and panels across the world. In the UK, he was appointed to several public function roles by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for International Development, Home Secretary, and the Lord Chancellor. In 2014, Prof. Faal was appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to international development