Abdul Tejan Cole: Commissioner

ACC Commissioner

Abdul Tejan-Cole is a Legal Practitioner who holds a LLB (Hons) Degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, LLM from University College London and a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Trade Law from University Institute of European Studies. He was a Human Rights Teaching Fellow at Columbia University in New York and a Yale World Fellow. He was awarded the 2001 Human rights watch award. He worked as a Trial Attorney and Appellate Counsel in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and taught law at the University of Sierra Leone. He was the Deputy Director, 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 Programme. He served as Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Bar Association and Vice President and then President of the Sierra Leone Bar Association. He was Board Chair of Open Society Institute for West Africa (OSIWA)(2002-2007) and is currently Chair of West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) and a board member of Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), Timap for Justice and West Africa Civil Society Institute. He was appointed Commissioner of the Anti Corruption Commission in December 2007.