Ibrahim Bangura heads the Sierra Leone office of Transition International, leading the organization’s projects in Sierra Leone and other African countries, and has over ten years of experience in the fields of DDR, child protection monitoring, and rehabilitation. Ibrahim has worked extensively on gender issues with a special focus on gender-based violence. He has worked with female victims of war and those marginalized by the DDR process for reasons of gender and age, and has organized seminars on gender discrimination and differentiation.

He also has thorough knowledge in project evaluation and management. He has taken part in many training programs organized by the UN and the EU both as a trainer and trainee, holds a BA in political science and history, a Master degree in gender studies, a Master degree in international development studies, and a PhD in economics.