Dr. Henry Musa Kpaka is a Harvard and London of School of Economics trained economist with professional experience in multinational development institutions and on the Africa continent.

Prior to his appointment, Dr. Kpaka was serving as Chief Technical Advisor in the Office of the President, as part of Tony Blair Global Institute (TBI) Advisory Team in Sierra Leone. Prior to coming to State House, Dr. Kpaka served as an Agriculture Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and his leadership.

Prior to this role in Sierra Leone, Dr. Kpaka spent three years at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to co-manage a ten-million-dollar project in partnership with the governments of Tanzania and Uganda There, he led a programme to pilot new approaches to deliver agriculture technologies to small holder farmers in a cost-effective manner in the two countries.

Dr. Kpaka’s other professional experience includes years at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he managed a portfolio in the agriculture sector worth hundreds of millions of dollars in West and East Africa and India. Dr Kpaka also worked at the World Bank to identify effective policy interventions to improve the ease of doing business in developing and emerging economies.
Dr. Kpaka completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also hold a Master Degree in Development Economics from Harvard University and a BSc in Economics.

Dr. Kpaka is a Public Policy Fellow at Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.