Gibril Faal

Gibril Faal is the interim director of the Africa-Europe Diaspora Development Platform (ADEPT) and was chairman of AFFORD for a decade. In 2013, he delivered a keynote address at the UN General Assembly to open the High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development. He co-chaired the 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). He is a board member of Bond. Gibril sat on the board of DFID’s Global Poverty Action Fund and the EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative and is the founder of RemitAid™. In 2014, he was appointed OBE for services to international development in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.