Abdul tejan cole biography of alberta

Abdul Tejan-Cole is a Sierra LeoneanOku legal practitioner and former Commissioner of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission.^[1] He was awarded the 2001 Human Rights Watch award.^[2]

Biography

Tejan-Cole holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, a Master of Laws from University College London and a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from the European University Institute.

He was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in Human Rights at Columbia University in New York, in addition to a Yale World Fellowship.^[3]

He worked as a trial attorney and appellate counsel in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and taught law at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.

He was the Deputy Director at the International Center for Transitional Justice’s (ICTJ) Cape Town Office and worked as Adviser and Component Manager Law Justice and Human Rights - Justice Sector Development P