Bukhari Sillah is an Associate Professor of Economics and currently a Lead Economist at the Chief Economist Department of Islamic Development Bank

Before joining IsDB, Dr. Sillah worked for seven years at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and headed the Quality and Accreditation Unit of the Department of Economics.

Previously, he worked at the University of the Gambia for eight years, spending five years as Head of the Department of Economics and Management.

Dr. Sillah was a founding commissioner of the Gambia Competition Commission, and he has widely published in international Journals. He is fluent in both Arabic and English and has some German basics