Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed
| Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed عبدالولي الشيخ أحمد |
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| Prime Minister of Somalia | |
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In office 21 December 2013 – 24 December 2014 |
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| President | Hassan Sheikh Mohamud |
| Preceded by | Abdi Farah Shirdon |
| Succeeded by | Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke |
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| Born | 1959 (age 57–58) Bardera, Somalia |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater |
Somali National University Algonquin College University of Ottawa |
| Religion | Islam |
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed (Somali: Cabdiweli Sheekh Axmed, Arabic: عبدالولي الشيخ أحمد; born 1959), also known as Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohammad, is a Somali economist and politician. He previously worked in the Somali military government as a Livestock Marketing Specialist and later on in mainly leadership positions with a number of international organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, African Union/IBAR, the European Union, the Bank of Canada, COMESA, and the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.
From December 2013 to December 2014, Ahmed served as the Prime Minister of Somalia. During his tenure, he enacted a number of domestic reforms as part of the local post-conflict development process. Among these initiatives were developing a Work Plan within the framework of Vision 2016 and in line with the New Deal Compact and the Peace and Stabilisation Goals, putting in place a new security task force and committees, approving a new Anti-terrorism law, developing stabilization initiatives for liberated areas, launching national reconciliation talks, opening a new office for religious scholarship, an Aviation Training Academy and a Meteorological institute in the capital Mogadishu, conducting a Population Estimation Survey for Somalia (PESS) in conjunction with the federal Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, approving a new Media Law, appointing new ministerial subcommittees within the Federal Cabinet, establishing a new five-member independent Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission, and passing legislation for a new National Electoral Commission and a Boundary and Federalization Commission.
Ahmed sought to strengthen bilateral cooperation with the United Arab Emirates in the areas of capacity building and the rehabilitation of government institutions, reaffirmed the Somali Armed Forces' participation in the regional EASF joint defense program, ratified three core International Labour Organization conventions on behalf of the Federal Republic of Somalia, adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and signed the first National Indicative Programme (NIP) between Somalia and the European Union in 25 years.
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