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Gibril Faal - Business Advisor & Founder of RemitAid™
…... Gambia High School and Universities of London (Law), Westminster (Finance & Management), South Bank (Development Studies) and East London (Environmental Sciences)
…... Trainee Clerk of Court at the Supreme Court of The Gambia, then Clerk of Court at a provincial Magistrates’ Court.
Gibril Faal is a multidisciplinary practitioner with an eclectic professional background. He has been a management consultant, business adviser and University lecturer for over 15 years, working on private, public and charitable sector development and was one of the pioneers of social enterprise business support delivery in the UK.
Gibril was previously a lecturer with The Open University, teaching on the MSc course in Global Development Management. He is a Director at GK Partners – a UK-based consultancy. His work includes establishing conceptual and practical linkages between ethical and Islamic finance and linking social enterprise to international development. He is the founder of RemitAid™ - the programme for ‘Remittance Tax Relief for International Development’. He is also the Chairman of the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), a UK-based charity which works to extend and enhance the role Diasporans play in African development. He advises many other businesses and charities and sits part-time as a magistrate.
With a Combined Honours degree in Law, Finance & Management and postgraduate degrees in both Environmental Sciences and Development Studies, he has been a member of several professional and academic bodies including the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance, Institution of Environmental Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts.
Gibril has been a leading innovator on how to improve the economic and developmental impacts of diaspora and migrant remittances.
…... Director of GK Partners – advisers to responsible businesses. Our services include: Access to Ethical Finance; Access to Sustainable Property; Access to Social Markets; Multiple Bottom Line Business Planning & Management; Social Marketing Evaluations; and Corporate Ethical Compliance. My other activities include: part-time magistrate in South West London (dealing mainly with criminal cases); chair of African Foundation for Development (which works to extend and enhance the contribution Africans in the diaspora make to African development); founder-director of RemitAid™ (which seeks to transform diaspora and migrant remittances into a sustainable form of international development); trustee of several charities and voluntary groups including FORWARD (working on Female Genital Mutilation and women’s health) and Edward Lear Foundation (working on disability arts, literature and culture).
…...in most endeavours, brilliant and innovative ideas are interesting; consistent diligent hard work is essential.
…... My parents; for demonstrating that constancy in low key community and public service is a duty for everyone who has something to give back to society.
…... Turning up late is a vice and that there is no excuse for it.
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