Sidi Moro Sanneh (born 2 December 1947) is a Gambian economist, politician and diplomat and is currently a resident of the United States. Sanneh served as the Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 2004 to March 2005, and as the Gambian Ambassador to Senegal from November 2005 to February 2006. Early life and education Sanneh was born on 2 December 1947 in Bathurst, the only child of Morro Sanneh, a police inspector, and Aji Mallen Gaye. He was one of the first students to go through Gambia High School, beginning his studies there in 1959. He attended university in the United States, completing a bachelor's degree in economics and political science at Wilberforce University, Ohio. He then completed a master's degree in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before completing a diploma in urban management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a student, Sanneh campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy in his bid to become the Democratic nominee in the 1968 US presidential election. Career Sanneh worked as an assistant to the Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, before working as the city's Public Service Employment Administrator and later the Coordinator of the Community Development Block Grant for both the city of Madison and Dane County. He returned to the Gambia in 1977, following the death of his father, when he joined the Gambian civil service. His first role was in the Ministry of Economic Planning and Industrial Development (MEPID), working under Dr Jabez Langley. From MEPID, he was seconded for three years to the Ministry of Agriculture to return the scandal-ridden Rural Development Project (RDP) to credibility. Following this, he returned to MEPID before transferring to the Ministry of Education. At the Ministry of Education he ran a project of investment into the education sector that culminated into what is now the University of the Gambia. In 1989, he was asked to move again, this time to the Ministry of Finance and Trade where he worked as a Deputy Permanent Secretary. In January 1992, he left government service to work as an Executive Director of the African Development Bank Group in Abidjan. He left the Bank in June 2001 when he became a senior advisor on Resource Mobilisation with the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Africa. He became the Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs on 14 October 2004 and served in that position until 24 March