Yakama Manty Jones (née Mara) is a Sierra Leonean multipotentiality living this through her portfolio career.
[6] Jones has authored and co-authored multiple scholarly articles[7] and spoken at TEDxYouth,[8] Africa Oxford Initiative,[9] and the World Bank.
[13] She then attended Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, where she earned her bachelor's degree with Honours in Economics.
[16] She was promoted to Information Management and Quality Assurance Specialist and eventually Delivery Team Lead after current mayor of Freetown, Her Worship Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr.
Jones has given lectures locally and internationally with organizations such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Blavatnik School of Government,[25] University of Oxford, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change,[26] and the World Bank on issues such as education, entrepreneurship, human capital development, service delivery.
[30] Jones' research interests include: Development Economics, International Business, Human Capital Development, Macro[31] and Micro-level data analysis[32] for growth dynamics, Building data systems[33] and innovative growth metrics,[34] Innovation and Systems Approaches to Public Service Delivery and Human-Centered Design.