Dr. Samuel Jibao is an ICTD researcher whose main area of interest is public economics with special focus on taxation. He holds a PhD in Economics and has done extensive research on tax, both at the national and sub-national levels.
Jibao is the Director of the Centre for Economic Research and capacity Building in, Sierra Leone, Senior Lecturer at the Africa tax Institute – University of Pretoria and former Deputy Director of the Monitoring, Research and Planning Department of the National Revenue Authority of Sierra Leone.
He has published a number of research focusing specifically on Sierra Leone, including Rebuilding Local Government Finance After Conflict: The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform in Sierra Leone and The political economy of property tax in Africa: Explaining reform outcomes in Sierra Leone.
