Sheku Kakay

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT SHEKU KAKAY

Dr. Sheku Kakay is the Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement at Scholars, Leeds Trinity University, in the United Kingdom. He also doubles as the CEO & President of Loffedoh Ltd. He was a senior lecturer and Collaborative Partnership Leadership at the University of Hertfordshire. His research interest mainly focuses on culture and consumer/organisational behaviour. He was an associate lecturer at the University of Salford and a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Chester and Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. He was also the Director of Studies of the Business Management Department at the Manchester International College, where he taught Project Management and International Marketing Strategies at the Postgraduate Level. Sheku is an experienced researcher, academic, management training consultant, planner and policy analyst with a profundity of knowledge in the Public and Private Sectors. He has a lengthy experience and proven track record of the Sierra Leonean civil service, and the British and Sierra Leonean educational systems - civil servant (senior planning officer) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security; senior lecturer at the University of Sierra Leone; and lecturer at the Universities of Chester and Salford. Sheku has worked not only as a Financial and Economic consultant for FAO on SMEs in Sierra Leone, but has also worked as part of a team of academic consultants that conducted capacity building on West African Import and Export Structures, Sources and destinations for ECOWAS. He was a member of the World Food day and Tele-food planning committee. He received a BSc (Hons.) degree from the Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone; a Post Graduate Diploma in Economic Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands; and MSc and MBA degrees from the University of Greenwich, UK. Sheku holds a Ph.D, in Business Management (Marketing/strategy) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Salford. He is also a Fellow (FHEA) and certified external examiner of the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy.