Baba Jallow

Baba Jallow is former Executive Secretary of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). Following the end of that Commission’s mandate in 2022, he served as the inaugural Roger D. Fisher Fellow in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Harvard Law School for the 2023 – 2024 academic year.

Baba holds a Ph.D in African History from the University of California (Davis), a Masters in Liberal Studies from Rutgers University (Camden), and a BA in History and Political Science from Fourah Bay College, the University of Sierra Leone. He has taught African and world history at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Before going into exile in the United States in September 2000, Baba was a journalist and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Observer and Independent newspapers in his home country of Gambia.