Name Samura Kamara Nationality Sierra Leonean | Preceded by James Rogers Role Economist | |
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Full Name Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara Political party All People's Congress (APC) Residence Freetown, Sierra Leone, | ||
Preceded by Joseph Bandabla Dauda | ||
Dr samura kamara minister of finance sierra leone
Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara (born April 30, 1951) is a Sierra Leonean economist who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone since 2012.
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- Early life
- Career
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A native of Kamalo, Bombali District, Samura Kamara spent some time as Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance during President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's administration. He was the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone from 2007 until March 2009, when he was appointed by President Ernest Bai Koroma as Minister of Finance. In December 2012, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Early life
Samura Kamara was born in the village of Kamalo, Bombali District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to ethnic Limba parents. Samura Kamara is a member of the Temne ethnic group.
Career
Kamara served from at least autumn 2005 as Financial Secretary at Sierra Leone's Ministry of Finance. He left the post some time before 2007 to work as an executive for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. He was in December 2007 appointed governor of Sierra Leone's central bank, a decision which local papers reported had the backing of Sierra Leone's international donors and supporters of the Bretton Woods system. In late February 2009 Kamara was appointed by President Ernest Koroma to succeed David Carew as Sierra Leone's Minister of Finance. Kamara dismissed suggestions that his new role represented a demotion. He forecast that, as the country endured the late-2000s global recession, Sierra Leone would experience a contraction in economic growth during 2009 to 5.5-6%, down from 7-7.5% the previous year. He also, however, projected slowing inflation, and the country's foreign reserve holdings remained within limits set by its major donor, the IMF.