Mr. Mohamed Ishmail Kutubu is an accomplished Civil/Public Servant, Permanent Secretary and a seasoned administrator with over Twenty years of experience in Public Administration in Sierra Leone. Born on 19^th June, 1968 in Pendembu, Upper Bambara Chiefdom, Kailahun District. He is married with three children and a Muslim by religion.

He received his early education at the Murray Deen Preparatory School Freetown, later at Roman Catholic Model Primary School (RCM) Bo and Christ the King College secondary school, Bo (CKC). He holds a Higher Teachers Certificate (HTC Secondary Education) in Government and History from Milton Margai Teachers College, a BA General in  Humanities from Fourah Bay College and MA in Public Administration from Njala University College.

Mr. Kutubu began his career as a teacher of Government and History at the Albert Academy Secondary School, Berry Street Freetown and later rose to the rank of senior teacher. He later left and was recruited as a Liberian at the Sierra Leone Library Board, Freetown and became a founding member of the Project Book Aid International reflecting his commitment to education and research.

During the Presidential and Parliamentary elections of 1996 in Sierra Leone, he played key role as Polling agent assigned to West Two constituency in the first democratic elections that ushered in President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and in 2002 Presidential and Parliamentary elections serve as elections observer for the National Election Watch (NEW).  He worked at Statistics Sierra Leone as an enumerator and supervisor respectively at the 2004 Population and Housing Census. He served as examiner for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) from 2003 to 2005

Politically, He contested the 2003 chieftaincy elections of Upper Bambara Chiefdom, Kailahun District under the Kutubu/Jajua ruling House and narrowly lost to Cyril Foray Gondor the substantive Paramount Chief of the Upper Bambara Chief.

Mr. Kutubu has held several positions in the Sierra Leone administrative  

Service, including Focal point of the West African Health Organization (WAHO),