Saleh Bala

Brig Gen Saleh Bala is a retired officer of the Nigerian Army. He is currently the President and Founder of the Whiteink Institute for Strategy Education and Research (WISER), and the CEO of White Ink Consult, Abuja, Nigeria. He has peacekeeping experiences in Angola as a Military Observer (UNAVEN III), and in Cote d’Ivoire, as the Military Chief of Staff (UNOCI). An alumnus of the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, University for Peace, San Jose Costa Rica, and the National Defense University, National War College, Washington DC, he has since his retirement, been working in areas of defense, peace and security with focus on the security of the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin. He has worked in areas of policy and strategy development and advisory services on Security Sector Reforms and Transformation programmes of the GIZ, DCAF, the US DoD/DoS Security Governance Initiative (SGI) and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), for some Africa countries.