Born 21st September 1987 in the Somalian city of Baidoa, ambassador Mohamed Abdullahi Ahmed earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mogadishu’s Hamar University, before earning a diploma in international relations from Al-Imra University.
He initially served as assistant national security advisor to the president (2005-06) and director of logistics at the office of the prime minister (2006-07), before becoming deputy director of the secretariat at the office of the prime minister (2008-09) and assistant to the chief of staff at the office of the prime minister (2009-10). He became director of the secretariat department at the office of the prime minister in 2010, where he remained until becoming acting director of humanitarian aid at the ministry of the interior and national security (2012–13).
His 2014 move to the Somalian MFA led to his first foreign posting in 2014, when he was appointed first secretary at the Somali Embassy in Ankara, in charge of consular and cooperation affairs (2014-16). After serving as acting director of state protocol at the MFA (2016-17), he spent four years (2017-21) as personal secretary of the President. He arrived in Belgrade in August 2021, first serving as chargé d’affairs “e.p.” and then, as of June 2022, ambassador. Apart from his native Somali, the ambassador also speaks English and Arabic.