Meet Our Director

Name: Ambassador Usman Sarki

Designation: Director of Housing and Commerical Development

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Background:

• Ambassador Sarki is a career diplomat who joined the Nigerian Foreign Service in 1982 and retired in 2017. He served in Australia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and the United States, and visited numerous countries in the course of his career. He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 2012 and posted to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations, New York. There, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative until 2016.

  In that capacity, he undertook many duties of sensitive nature that impacted on Nigeria's security, wellbeing and democratic governance. He met with several Heads of State and Governments, and interacted with many national leaders at the levels of Ministers, Ambassadors, Security Chiefs, Special Envoys as well as Heads of International Organisations and International Non-governmental Organisations. Ambassador Sarki remains to this day one of the foremost diplomats produced by Nigeria and his wealth of experience especially in multilateral diplomacy is globally recognised.

  Upon retirement, he served as Directing Staff at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, which is the Nigerian government's premier think-tank dedicated to public policy development and strategy. He also served as the Senior Special Adviser on Policy and Strategy to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in which capacity he contributed to the Party's victory in the 2023 general elections.

  Ambassador Sarki currently serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Governance and Development in Borno State. He is also the Chairman of the Skyewise Group of companies. He serves in various other capacities in different organisations including the Federal Government's Population Advisory Group (PAG) of which he is the Spokesperson. He is currently engaged in writing on national affairs and other contemporary topics and some of his articles have already been published on the online journal "Intervention".

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