Mohamed Sorie Conteh is the founder of the NGO, MADAM and the Land and Food Rights Campaign Network, SiLNoRF to which he currently serves as the Director and National Coordinator respectively. He is one of the architects of the campaign against land grabbing in Sierra Leone and has written many articles and made many presentations on the subject. Mr Conteh is a co-author of the academic paper Determining Minimum Compensation For Lost Farmland: A Theory-based Impact Evaluation of a Land Grab in Sierra Leone published at the Ruhr University, Bochum.

Born is Sierra Leone, Mr Conteh holds a Master of Arts Degree in Development Management from Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.