Vice President –WEST AFRICAN REGION

Ansu S. Tucker was appointed Director General of the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) in April, 2018. He holds a Masters of Art Degree from Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone, the very college he acquired his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1991. He also has a Master of Science Degree in Public Administration from the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM) and he is Hubert Humphrey/Fulbright Fellow in Governance and Public Sector Management from the Evans School of Public Policy in the University of Washington, USA. Ansu holds many managerial, professional and other educational certificates in and outside of Sierra Leone. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), UK, and a Doctoral Candidate in Business Administration (DBA) in the Poles Paris Alternance (PPA) Business School in Paris. Mr. Tucker is also Commissioner for Oaths in Sierra Leone and the Vice President for West Africa for the African Public Sector Human Resource Managers’ Network.

Mr. Ansu S. Tucker has to his credit numerous policy inputs and has written published articles on public sector management and civil service reforms, World Bank and EU program evaluations including designing, organising and managing multi sectoral development programmes. He has over 30 years working experience as a distinguished civil servant in Sierra Leone and is currently the IMPREST Administrator for EU support to the Governance Sector in the area of Public Service Reforms for the Public Service Commission and HRMO.

He joined the Sierra Leone Civil Service as an Administrative Officer in the then Establishment Secretary’s Office in May 1993 and rose through the ranks becoming a Senior Assistant Secretary in December 2000, a Deputy Establishment Secretary from July 2005 – November 2008, in charge of discipline, leave, retirement, and pension/gratuity, etc. He briefly worked in the Ministry of Agriculture as Deputy Secretary in charge of Human Resources and was recalled to the Establishment Secretary’s Office where he became the 1st Director of HR Planning and Budgeting following the conversion of the Establishment Secretary’s Office into the Human Resource Management Office in 2008. In March of the same year, he was posted to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development as Principal Deputy Financial Secretary (PDFS), where he served for two excellent years from April, 2016 to April, 2018, when he was appointed as Director-General, Human Resource Management Office.

Ansu has keen interest and deep commitment to good governance and civil service reforms. In recognition of his extensive work and passion on issues of civil service and public sector management, he has received several outstanding awards as a consummate civil servant in Sierra Leone.