Lamin holds a Master’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from two renowned universities in Turkey. During his master’s studies, he served as a teaching assistant in econometric data analysis, and research philosophies & methods.

Following his master’s studies, he interned at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs (MoFEA) of The Gambia for nearly five months, after which he worked as an economist at Gambia Participates, a civil society organization. Among other things, at Gambia Participates, he conducted the 2023 Open Budget Survey (OBS) for The Gambia with the International Budget Partnership (IBP), as well as a full survey of the participatory budgeting process of one of the prominent local government councils in The Gambia, Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), with Transparency International (TI); he trained the National Assembly Members of The Gambia on effective public participation in budget processes, and he also conducted a series of training on gender responsive budgeting. In an effort to strengthen participatory budgeting, Lamin has written and published a handbook explaining The Gambia’s entire central government budget process.

Lamin has also lectured in Economics, Economic research methods and Management research methods at the University of The Gambia (UTG); he has been an adjunct lecturer at UTG for 3 semesters now.