Dr Baimba Abdulai Koroma is the Executive/Managing Director of Management for Sustainable Development (MSD) Consulting Services Limited in Sierra Leone since its establishment in 2012. He has over 20 years of consistent experience in university teaching and development work across diverse fields. He is a qualified, skilled, and experienced expert in development economics, project planning/design and management, applied research and monitoring and impact evaluation, private-sector development (entrepreneurship, SMEs, and agribusiness and smallholder commercialisation), policy and strategy formulation, and capacity assessments and building. He is vast in the areas of poverty and inequality, economic growth and analyses of sectoral compositions of economies (agricultural, services, and industry production and productivity growth), structural transformation, institutional development, governance and accountability, livelihoods and social protection, food and nutrition security, foreign aid, inclusive education and learning, WASH, health (sexual and reproductive health), gender and youth empowerment and mainstreaming in development, and resilience to vulnerability and climate change impacts including climate-smart agriculture practices.

He has extensive experience of working on donor funded intervention assignments (e.g. the World Bank, USAID, EU, DFID/FCDO, Islamic Development Bank, BADEA, African Development Bank, GIZ, Irish Aid, and United Nations Agencies such as UNDP, FAO, UNICEF, WFP, WHO, UNAIDS, IFAD, etc.) through NGOs (international, local & CSOs) and the public sector (local councils, and Ministries and allied Departments/Agencies) in Sierra Leone. Some of the international NGOs include CRS, Plan International, Save the Children, CARE International, World Vision, Marie Stopes International, ChildFund, Oxfam, Welthungerhilfe, ActionAid International, CAFOD International, COOPI, IRC, Handicap International, etc.

He is highly experienced and skilled in planning and facilitation of workshops, training, presentations and lectures delivered to individuals/institutions from diverse fields and sectors with exceptional skills in creating partnerships, stakeholder engagement, report writing, and communication and information dissemination in academic and non-academic settings. He has successfully led coordination of the design and implementation of development projects, and many consultancies on capacity assessments and building, policy and strategy formulation, business/entrepreneurship development, monitoring and impact evaluation, and applied quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods assignments including experimental, quasi-experimental, and non-experimental designs across diverse socioeconomic and sustainable development fields and sectors. He has enormous intellectual ability and skills in theory of change development/analysis, and cost-benefit and cost effectiveness analyses.

While a consultant, Dr. Baimba Koroma is a lecturer at the Njala University, Sierra Leone, serving the Department of Economics, and the Institute of Social Studies, Administration & Management (ISSAM) in the School of Social Sciences and Law. He is highly skilled in the use of various statistical software (STATA, SPSS & R), MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point, Access), online platforms (Teams, Zoom, internet, Kobo toolbox, & SurveyCTO), and knowledgeable in using NVivo and QGIS software.