[3] In order to not disappoint his father, Tambadou abandoned sport to pursue academics, and was offered a place to study law at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

[3] From 2001 to 2002, he completed a master's degree in international human rights law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

[4] Tambadou first worked as a public prosecutor at the Gambian Ministry of Justice from 1997 to 1999, ensuring national prosecution of local crimes.

[4] In 2003, he left the Gambia to work at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, as an associate legal officer, a position he held from 2003 to 2005.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ousainou Darboe, a lawyer himself, said that Tambadou was "not new to the judicial system and very versatile in the area that he is assigned to overseen.