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George currently works as a Partnerships and Resources Mobilization Advisor with Digital Skills Foundation.
He has over two decades of extensive experience in Government Reforms, Government Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, Education Reform, Health Reform, Outcomes Improvement, Efficiencies/Cost Savings Realisation, Financial Resources Maximisation/Cost Savings, Building Human Capital, Public-Private Partnerships, Fragile/Post-Conflict States, Civil Service Reform, Recruiting and Staff Initiatives, Negotiation, Innovation, Interpersonal Relationship Development, and Consensus Building
He has worked as Advisor and Coordinator to the Co-Chair, HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), and at UN High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism. He has also been Senior Advisor (Education/Human Capital Development) at the New Globe Schools and Big Win Philanthropy McClean, Virginia – USA.
For 3 years (2015-2018), George was the Minister of Education in Monrovia, Liberia. Previously, he had served as Senior Technical Advisor to Director General where he eventually rose to be the position of Director General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA) in the same Government where he was advisor to the President of Liberia regarding public service and personnel management. In this position, he was able to provide crucial and well-considered advice on socio-political and economic factors affecting Liberia, he also aided in the finalisation of the first-ever National Human Resource Policy for civil servants, spearheaded merit-based recruitment exercises for the Office and supported CSA decision-making by ensuring efficient inter-agency coordination.
His teaching and academic experience span from being a faculty member at Mother Patern College of Health Sciences, Monrovia, Liberia. Fellow Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Programme at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. He also taught at Our Lady of Lourdes High School / Camp Marist, Poughkeepsie, St. Michael and Shirley Kolmer School, Monrovia, Liberia, and at St. Henry’s Marist Brothers College, Catholic Institute of Education in South Africa.
He has great experience being on several board memberships at the Luminos Fund, Global Educational Policy Dashboard Technical Advisory Board at The World Bank Group, Varkey Foundation at the Atlantis Group, and the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center. An Expert Group member at the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Forum.
Past engagements include board member at the Global Partnership for Education and a commissioner (COMHEEG) at the UN High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth- 2016-2017.
George has a Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, a Bachelor of Arts, Education, and Religious Studies from Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy, and a secondary teacher diploma certificate from the Catholic University of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
