Elias is an international affairs, development, and policy professional, with over 20 years in public service and nonprofit, where he made significant contributions to the post-war recovery and development of Liberia. He was a World Fellow at Yale University in 2019.  Elias’ extensive professional expertise spanned multiple executive-level portfolios including, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister, Deputy Minister for International Economic Cooperation and Integration, as well as Assistant Foreign Minister for Int’l Cooperation and Economic Affairs, respectively in Liberia; Board Chair of Foreign Service Institute, Board Member of Liberia National Commission on Small Arms (LINSA), Starz University, Liberia, etc. His leadership inspired strategic reforms in Liberia’s Foreign Ministry, and he played a pivotal role in deepening Liberia’s post-conflict ties with the comity of nations and expanded cooperation on new frontiers. Elias coordinated Liberia’s resource mobilization efforts during West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014, resulting to the earliest containment of the virus in Liberia. His multilateral work includes over eleven years as Advisor to the Liberian delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and lead negotiator at the Second, Third and Fourth Committees, African Union, ECOWAS, etc. He is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Liberia graduate school. Elias brings to ADMA Team, the combination of drive, dedication, creativity, technical competence, experience, and leadership in contemporary diplomacy, investment policy, global trading system, policy analysis, negotiations and mediation, public sector management and capacity building.