Ali Haji Warsame
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Ali Haji Warsame | |
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| علي حاج ورسمه | |
.jpg) Ali Haji Warsame in 2014 | |
| Puntland Minister of Education and Higher Education | |
| In office 28 January 2014 – 16 June 2015 | |
| President | Abdiweli Mohamed Ali |
| Vice President | Abdihakim Abdullahi Haji Omar |
| Preceded by | Abdi Farah |
| Succeeded by | Abshir Yusuf Isse |
| Chief Executive Director of (Golis Telecommunication Company) | |
| Director of Management (Port of Bosaso) | |
| In office 1993–1996 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1964 (age 61–62) Seemade, Mudug, Somalia |
| Alma mater | Somali Institute for Development, Administration and Management American University in London |
| Awards | Most influential people in Somalia, 100 creative people of Puntland |
Ali Haji Warsame (Somali: Cali Xaaji Warsame, Arabic: علي حاج ورسمه; born 1964) is a Puntland entrepreneur, accountant, and politician. He served as the first director of management at the Port of Bosaso, and later as the chief executive officer of Golis Telecom Somalia. In 2014, he was appointed the Puntland Minister of Higher Education.
Warsame was born in 1964 in Seemada, a village near the Jariban District in the Mudug province of the autonomous Puntland state in northeastern Somalia. His late father was a lawyer, judge, politician, intellectual, and community and religious leader who was part of the local independence movement in the 1940s and 1950s. His mother hails from the northern Sool province.[1]
Warsame belongs to the Omar Mahmoud subclan of Majeerteen Harti Darod clan.[2]
He began school in the northwestern town of Hargeisa, the second largest city in Somalia. Warsame completed his primary education in the Mudug province capital of Galkayo. He subsequently studied at the Somali Institute for Development, Administration and Management (SIDAM), earning a bachelor's degree in business management and administration in 1990. In 2003, he received an MBA in management information systems from the American University in London.[1]
Besides Somalia, Warsame has lived and worked in various countries, including the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. He is also fluent in a number of languages, notably Somali, Arabic and English.[1]