Sierra Leone’s Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, is expected to deliver a strong call for deeper diaspora participation in the country’s development when he serves as keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Sierra Leone Diaspora Investment Conference in London, scheduled for June 19–20.
Rather than viewing the diaspora solely as a source of remittances, the Vice President is expected to urge Sierra Leoneans abroad to become long-term partners in nation-building by investing their expertise, innovation, networks, and capital in sectors that can create sustainable jobs and strengthen national institutions.
His message aligns with the conference theme, which focuses on mobilizing diaspora finance and intellectual capital to accelerate industrialization and economic transformation.
The keynote address builds on a series of high-level engagements in which Dr. Jalloh has consistently championed diaspora and private sector participation in national development. During a government engagement with Sierra Leoneans in London in July 2025, he highlighted progress in human capital development, infrastructure, energy reform, and economic diversification, while encouraging the diaspora to invest in banking, healthcare, education, and entrepreneurship beyond traditional family remittances.
More recently, he represented Sierra Leone at the 2026 World Bank Fragility Forum, where he outlined the difficult policy choices involved in balancing investments in infrastructure, education, and climate resilience. He reinforced his longstanding position that Sierra Leone’s greatest development challenge is not only financing, but also building the human capital and institutional capacity needed to deliver lasting transformation.