Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, is expected to deliver a strong call for deeper diaspora participation in Sierra Leone’s development when he takes the stage as keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Sierra Leone Diaspora Investment Conference in London on June 19-20.
Rather than viewing the diaspora solely as a source of remittances, the Vice President is expected to challenge Sierra Leoneans abroad to become long-term partners in nation-building by investing their expertise, innovation, networks, and capital in sectors capable of creating sustainable jobs and strengthening national institutions.
His message aligns with the conference theme of mobilising diaspora finance and intellectual capital to accelerate industrialisation and economic transformation.
The keynote builds on a series of high-level engagements in which Dr. Jalloh has consistently championed diaspora and private sector participation in national development. During a government engagement with Sierra Leoneans in London in July 2025, he highlighted progress in human capital development, infrastructure, energy reform and economic diversification while encouraging the diaspora to invest in banking, healthcare, education and entrepreneurship beyond traditional family remittances.
More recently, he represented Sierra Leone at the World Bank’s 2026 Fragility Forum, where he outlined the difficult policy choices involved in balancing infrastructure, education and climate resilience, reinforcing his longstanding position that Sierra Leone’s greatest development challenge is not only financing but also building the human capital and institutional capacity needed to deliver lasting transformation.
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