Hassan Ali Khayre
| Hassan Ali Khayre | |
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| Prime Minister of Somalia | |
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Assumed office 1 March 2017 |
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| President | Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed |
| Preceded by | Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke |
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| Born | 15 April 1968 (age 49) |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater |
University of Oslo Heriot-Watt University |
Hassan Ali Khayre (Somali: Xasan Cali Khayre) (born 15 April 1968) is the current Prime Minister of Somalia. He was appointed on 23 February 2017 by Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and unanimously approved by the Parliament on 1 March 2017.
Khayre is a former aid worker and oil executive. The 49-year-old has been a regional director of the Norwegian Refugee Council charity and served as the director of the British oil company Soma Oil and Gas.
Hassan Ali Khayre was born in Somalia to a family from the Murusade tribe, a branch of the larger Hawiye tribe. He graduated from primary and secondary school in Mogadishu. At the onset of the civil war, Khayre moved as a refugee to Norway where he enrolled at the University of Oslo in 1994. While in university, Khayre was active in the Somali Students Association, according to a friend.
Khayre is a dual citizen of Norway and Somalia.
After graduating in 1998 with a degree in political science and minor in sociology, Khayre went on to complete his MBA at Edinburgh Business School, the graduate school of business of Heriot-Watt University, in 2001.
After graduation, he moved back to Oslo where he began working with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) at their headquarters as a coordinator for their readiness forces.
Khaire briefly left the NGO for a few years to pursue business endeavors but in 2006 he returned to the NRC as an area manager. He remained at the NRC for the next 9 years as he worked his way up to County Director and eventually the Regional Director for the Horn of Africa. In June 2012, when Hassan Khaire was regional director for the NRC, a NRC caravan was attacked in northeastern Kenya, the Norwegian daily Verdens Gang reported. One of the drivers was killed on the spot. Several others were shot and injured. One Norwegian, one Canadian and two others from Pakistan and the Philippines were driven away by the kidnappers. Four days later they were released by a local militia group after a dramatic shootout on the other side of the border in Somalia. The NRC which was led by Hassan Khaire, was found guilty in gross negligence in a Norwegian court for poor planning of the security.http://www.bistandsaktuelt.no/nyheter/2016/flyktninghjelpen-rettsak/ . Hassan Khaire has also been under investigation for coruption when working for the British company Soma Oil, but the investigation was dropped because of lack of evidence, although the investigators maintained that it still was reasons for supsicions.http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2016/12/15/serious-fraud-office-closes-corruption-investigation-of-soma-oil/
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