He was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of Sierra Leone in 2008 and joined the law firm of Garber & Co in May 2010 where he served as Off-Counsel handling complex litigation and contractual matters on behalf of the firm. Barrister Kellie also served as in house counsel to the National Power Authority, the state-owned utility responsible for the generation, transmission, distribution and retail sale of electricity throughout Sierra Leone. In his role as legal adviser to the Authority and the Ministry of Energy and Water, he participated in the negotiation and drafting of several power agreements between the Authority and power providers like ADDAX BioEnergy (now Sunbird), Bumbuna II Hydro Power Project, CECA Freetown Generation Project, and a couple of emergency power arrangements.

Mr Kellie was part of the team that put together the Intergovernmental agreement between Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, for the construction, under the aegis of the West African Power Pool, of a transmission line to facilitate cross border trade in electricity between the four nations.

In 2010, the Government initiated reforms in the electricity and water sectors, culminating in the unbundling of the electricity sector into generation and transmissions and distribution, supply and retail sale of electricity and the creation of two state owned entities to perform these segregated functions. As part of the reform process, the two water utilities were mandated to operate on a commercial basis. To ensure efficient service delivery to consumers, the Sierra Leone and Water Regulatory Commission was established to regulate the provision of the highest quality of electricity and water services to consumers, of which Commission Mr Kellie became the first substantively appointed Director-General in 2015. He left the Commission in 2018 and returned to Chambers, where among other things, he handles regulatory matters on behalf of the firm.

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