Bakar Mansaray, a Sierra Leonean living in Ontario, Canada, recently earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Athabasca university in Western Canada.
Bakarr(photo) was born and grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone, attended the Albert Academy (1969 - 1975) and Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone (1980 - 1984).
He graduated with a B.A. degree majoring in French and Geography. Between 1984 and 1999, Mr. Mansaray served Sierra Leone Airlines as Flight Attendant, Personnel Superintendent, Market Researcher, French Translator / Interpreter, and was privileged to visit fourteen countries.
During his career development, he did part-time work as a French Teacher at the Bishop Johnson Memorial School (1987 - 1988), as a Tourism Studies Tutor at the Brookfields Hotel & Tourism Training Centre (1996), and as an Airline Business Studies / French Lecturer at the Centre for Transport & Tourism Management.
Mr. Mansaray, popularly known as Samory, was forced to leave Sierra Leone for Côte d’Ivoire in 1999 during an escalation of the civil war in Freetown. In Abidjan, he served as a Station Manager for the Inter Tropic Airlines, and as a French Translator / English Teacher for Traductions Lingua House.
In 2001, Mr. Mansaray immigrated to Canada as a permanent resident where he is presently residing with his wife and three children. He recently graduated from Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada with a Masters degree in Business Administration. His research interests are energy management and the environment, international and business economics.
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