Dr. Al-Hassan Conteh is a Liberian academic and was the President of the University of Liberia. Conteh earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.
Prof. Conteh has previously been a member of the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the Geography and Urban Studies Department at Temple University. Conteh was also a Research Fellow at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethno-political Conflict at Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2005. He served as the University of Liberia's 12th president from 1 December 2004,[1] until 2008 and was succeeded by Dr. Emmett Dennis.[2] Conteh is now Liberia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).[2] ECOWASAll Africa