Member, Board of Directors
Liberian Sociologist and Public Administrator, Lydia Sandimanie Nimley, is also a Creative Media Professional who is quite passionate about national profile transformation and growth acceleration, via the construction of systems, structures and socio-economic behavior change. As a genre-hybrid writer, director, recreational media producer, and content developer, she has, since 1987, worked in diverse professional mid to upper tier capacities across several sectors: International Corporate, Government, Political Parties, Media, Security, Humanitarian, etc. Her work in Government spans three and the half decades and includes such posts as: Deputy Chief of Protocol, Special Assistant to the President, Presidential Speech Writer, Director of Passports & Visas RL, and Assistant Director General for the National Bureau of Concessions; before her current appointment to the Board of Directors for NOCAL. Lydia, though well-travelled, has lived in Liberia for most of her life and throughout most of the major wars. She was born in Monrovia to parents from notable families hailing from Montserrado, Grand Cape Mount, and Grand Kru counties. A proverbial child of the concessions, she was raised (1970s & 80s) in Liberia's modern city-towns of Bong Mines, Yekepa, and Buchanan (in Bong, Nimba, and Grand Bassa counties, respectively). Her career pursuits are consequently motivated by her unwavering convictions that Liberia can and will rise to again become a beacon of respect, admiration and authority in Africa. She lives to see Liberia renewed and excelling according to international standards. This mother of five and grandmother, matriculated to the University of Liberia in 1988 from the Bong Town (International) School in Bong Mines, where she had graduated valedictorian of the Class of 1987. Whilst awaiting commencement of the new academic year for UL, she worked for six months as a secretary with the multinational (German, Italian, British) Senior Management and the Data Processing Department of the Bong Mining Company. At the UL she read Mathematics and Physics until the interruption of the civil war. Her multifaceted career path in the ensuing years eventually compelled her into switching to a degree in Humanities with a minor in Public Administration.
