Mr Abdulai Caulker

Mr Abdulai Caulker is a seasoned administrator and security sector professional with over twenty-one years of experience. He is one of the few founding members of the Office of National Security and played a pivotal role in the talent-spotting and recruitment of the current crop of directors at the ONS.

He holds a Master’s degree in Educational Administration, a Bachelor’s in Education, and a Higher Teacher’s Certificate. He has also pursued courses in Security Sector Reform, Human Resource Development, Conflict Analysis and Mediation, Early Warning and Early Response Techniques, and Change Management.

He has worked with development and donor partners including UNDP, DfID, ADB, IMATT, and ISAT, and has represented Sierra Leone in a number of high-level security conferences across Africa.

During the interregnum in 1997, Mr Caulker served as National Chairman of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. While in Conakry, he was also appointed by the Government of Sierra Leone as Programme Officer to monitor sanction busters until the Tejan Kabbah administration was restored to power.

At the ONS, he served as Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Unit in charge of the South and Eastern provinces from 1999 to 2000. From 2002 to 2008, he was Assistant Director of Administration and Finance and was later appointed Director of Administration and Finance.

In 2015, he was appointed Director of Finance and Corporate Service. In July 2018, he was appointed Deputy National Security Coordinator by His Excellency President Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio.

In post-conflict security stabilisation efforts and in more recent years, Mr Caulker managed major security sector portfolios on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone.