OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

His Excellency Muhammed B.S Jallow

EDUCATION

VP Jallow had his Primary and Higher teacher’s certificates from the Gambia College in 1985 and 1988 respectively. In 1991, he earned his first Degree, BA Honours in Education, specialising in Mathermatics from the University of Bristol, UK. Four year later in 1995 gained a Master’s Degree in education and specializing in Educational Planning and Statistics, also from the University of Bristol, UK.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Muhammed Jallow started as an unqualified teacher in 1980. As a Primary School Teacher, he taught all subjects on the curriculum until 1988, when he specialised in teaching Mathematics and Science. By 1992, Jallow held the position of Education Planner/Statistician, and got involved in the Collection, Collation and analysis of Educational Statistics and three years later became a Principal Planner.

Rising up the administrative cadre, Mr. Jallow became Director of Information Technology and Human Resources, Ministry of Education. Technical adviser to Senior Management on issues relating to staffing, training and ICT in 1998 and five year on in 2003, he became the Director of Planning, Ministry of Education and technical adviser to Senior Management on issues relating to staffing, training and ICT.

As a career educationist, Mr Jallow rose to the position of Deputy Permanent Secretary Programmes, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and the Chief technical adviser to the Permanent Secretary in 2014. He was promoted in 2017 to the position of Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and a year later, in 2018, became Permanent Secretary, Policy and Coordination, Office of The President. In 2019, Mr Jallow was appointed Secretary-General and Head of the Civil Service, until his statutory retirement in 2020.

Until his appointment as Vice President of The Republic of The Gambia, Mr Jallow was Deputy Executive Director at the Senegalo-Gambia Secretariat, responsible for The Gambia.

VP Jallow’s professionalism in project management and facilitation on Goal Oriented Project Planning and Strategic Choices in Education between 1997- 2007 earned him awards and recognition from the World Bank Washington DC, RIPA, UK and Brussels, Belgium.

Mr Jallow contributed to the design and implement an Educational Management Information System (EMIS), and introduce a staff appraisal system. The project also developed a Geographical Information System which digitally represented all schools and related data to enable management take more informed decision on issues of school mapping.

He also held key responsibilities and contributed to the EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA) Campaign, annual reviews of education expenditures in order to establish whether resources match policy pronouncements. He also contributed significantly in the revised Education policy in 1995 and subsequently development of a master plan which spelt out the inputs and cost of all the strategies to implement the policy.

A member of the team that prepared the 2004 -2015 Education Policy, Coordinated the 2016 – 2030 Education Policy development and the Mid-Term plan 2008 to 2011 as well as the Education Sector Strategic Plan 2006 to 2015 were amongst other works he did.

Working at the Office of the President as Permanent Secretary Policy Coordination and Head of the Civil Service earned him experience into the management, coordination and monitoring of the Civil Service and dealing with State owned enterprises.