PROFILE OF THE PRINCIPAL
Professor Strasser-King obtained degrees in Geology from the Universities of Durham and Manchester. He started his career as an assistant geologist at the Geological Survey Department in Sierra Leone. He joined Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 1974 as a lecturer in geology. He became professor of geology in 1985.He was for over 15 years head of department and also dean, faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences before his appointment as Principal in 1993.He is currently also the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone and has acted as Vice Chancellor on several occasions.

The Principal ; Prof.V.E.H.Strasser-King 
B.Sc (Dunelm), PhD (Manchester), Dip. in Remote Sensing (Azabaijan), C.Eng, C.Geol, M.Inst.MM, FGS, FRC

Professor Strasser-King was a Fulbright scholar in the school of Mineral and Earth Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. in 1980, and visitor to many universities in the U.K. and Germany sponsored by the British Council and DAAD respectively. He has served as external examiner in geology to Universities in West Africa.

From 1984 to 1990 he was in the Board of the International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) at UNESCO, Paris. He participated in several geotraverses for the UNESCO 'Geology for Economic Development' project in many West African countries.

He has held corporate positions in many companies including the Chairmanship of the Board of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company, directorship in the Sierra Leone National Power Authority. He is geological consultant to many companies, nationally and internationally.

He has participated in many seminars, workshops and conferences in Sierra Leone and abroad and has many research publications in learned journals on Geology and higher Education.

Since his assumption of the principalship of the College he has initiated many infrastructural developments as well as academic structural changes.

Prof.V.E.H.Strasser-King, November 1999

VICE PRINCIPAL

The Vice Principal is Prof: A. Wyse. Telephone number:227954

BA Hons  Hist (Dunelm)
PhD University of Aberdeen, Scotland