Professor Gibril Faal is a multi-disciplinary business and development executive. He is the co-founder and director of GK Partners specialising in socially responsible business models, sustainable development and programme implementation. He is a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics (LSE), Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA).

He is also a council member of Carnegie African Diaspora Program and Lead Consultant to the African Union Commission on innovative, development and diaspora finance. He serves as a technical expert and special adviser to development institutions and governments across the world.

In the early 2000s, he was one of the small team of experts that worked on a Department of Trade and Industry project to develop UK’s social enterprise business support, legal and financing structures.

In 2003, he founded RemitAid as a mechanism to transform remittances into a sustainable form of development finance.