Faisal Hawar

Faisal Hawar فيصل هوار
Born	1963 Aden, Yemen
Alma mater	University of Pune Aligarh Muslim University SCOTVEC
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Title	Chairman of International Somalia Development Foundation, CEO of Maakhir Resource Company

Faisal Ahmed Yusuf "Hawar" (Somali: Faisal Xawaar, Arabic: فيصل هوار‎‎) (born 1963) is a Somali Entrepreneur. He is the CEO/President and co-founder of the International Somalia Development Foundation as well as the Maakhir Resource Company.

Hawar was born Faisal Ahmed Yusuf in 1963 in Aden, Yemen. His family hails from the Las Khorey area in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia, a stronghold of the Warsangali sub-clan of the Harti Darod. Faisal's father, the late Haji Hawar, was a prominent middle manager with British Petroleum based in Yemen.

For his early education, Hawar attended school in Mogadishu, situated in the south-central Banaadir region of Somalia. He pursued his undergraduate studies abroad, earning a Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics and Operation Research from the University of Pune in Maharashtra, India in 1987. Hawar followed that in 1989 with a Master's degree in Statistics, Operations Research and Computer Programming from the Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India. In 1993, he also earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Computing from the SCOTVEC in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hawar began his career in 1991 as a Computer Systems Quality Controller with Etisalat, the leading telecommunications firm in the United Arab Emirates. In 1998, he became the Head of IT Operations for the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, which at the time was just starting up. Hawar joined the Etisalat Group's Thuraya Satellite Telecommunication Company the following year. As the firm's Chief Information Officer between 2007-2008, he led five sub-departments, a staff of 89, and managed a total Capex/Opex of $30 million USD. He later served as the Chief Information Office/Director of IT for Etisalat's Zanzibar Telecom division.

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