Professor Pierre Gomez
Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, The Gambia
Professor Pierre Gomez is currently the Honourable Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology. Prior to this, he served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic at The University of The Gambia. He has served on several occasions as visiting university lecturer to universities including Limoges in France, Linnaeus in Sweden, St. Mary's College of Maryland in the USA and Gaston Berger of St Louis in Senegal. He received training in Higher Education Management at Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China and has a fellowship in the same area. For ten years he served as the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Comparative Literature and he served as the Acting Vice Chancellor at The University of The Gambia. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and French from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.