A Brief Biography of UL’s new Acting President, Prof. Al-Hassan Conteh, Ph.D.
Prof. Al-Hassan Conteh, Acting President of the University of Liberia (UL) is also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Liberia to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with concurrent accreditation to the Republics of Benin and Equatorial Guinea, and Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
He served as the Chairman of the ECOWAS Permanent Representative Committee and the Mediation and Security Council of ECOWAS at the Ambassadorial Level from 2017 to 2018.
He is the current Dean of West African Ambassadors and Deputy Dean of African Ambassadors in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Dr. Conteh is also the Co-Chair of the Board of the Africa Peace Fellows Program at the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution at California State University, Sacramento.
Before his ambassadorial assignment, he served as the President of the University of Liberia (UL) from 2004 to 2008. During this period, he was a founding member of the Association of Liberian Universities, where he served as Vice President of Academic Programs from 2005 to 2008.
Before that, he was a Research Fellow at the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) USA, from January 2001 to December 2004. During this period, he served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple Universities in Philadelphia, USA, where he taught courses respectively on Understanding African Conflicts and African Development.  From 1996 to 2000, he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Liberia.