Ahmed Shide or Ahmed Shidde ( so, Axmed Shiide), is a Somali-

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politician and the former chair of the somali political party of the Somali regional state. He is a member of the Federal parliament and was a member of the ruling party

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(ESPDP). Currently an influential member of PM Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party. He has also been serving as

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in the government of

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Abiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed Ali ( om, Abiyi Ahmed Alii; am, አብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ; born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician who has been the 4th prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018. He won the 2019 ...

since 2018. Ahmed Shide hails from the Gurre (Gurreh) from Nagayle that is closely related to other Dir nation in the Horn of Africa including Ethiopia, Djibouti Somalia and Kenya.

Early life and education

Ahmed shide was born in Nagele to a less well off Gurre parents belonging to the Madahweyne a subclan of the Dir Somali. Ahmed completed his primary, secondary and tertiary education in Ethiopia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Ethiopian Civil Service College,

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, Ethiopia. Shide also holds a Masters of Arts in Participation, Development and Social Change from the Institute of Development Studies,

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, United Kingdom,

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in Managing Rural Resources and Resource Conflicts from the

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, and MBA from

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, London, United Kingdom.

Career

Before assuming office as

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, Shide served as Minister of Transport and also as Minister of Government Communication Affairs of Ethiopia. Even before that he served as state minister of the ministry of finance and economic development for more than eight years, where he led the countries economic cooperation and regional development and integration agenda. He was the one who championed and spearheaded the economic reform of Ethiopia and contributed to the significant development achievements of the country recorded over the past decades. At the moment he is the one leading the economic reform, which aims at boosting private participation and better economic efficiency. He also served the government at regional state level. Shide assumed the office of Minister of Finance on 16 October 2018, replacing Abraham Tekeste. By mid-2019, he proposed to parliament 386.9 billion birr ($13.48 billion) in government spending for the 2019/2020 budget. Also during his time in office, Ethiopia announced plans to split its state telecoms provider

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into two business units along infrastructure and service sector lines before it is privatized. In late 2020, he oversaw negotiations with the

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on a $2.9 billion programme, one of the biggest in the fund’s history in Africa. In addition to his role in government, Shide has been a member of the

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’s (WBG) Advisory Council on Gender and Development.

Other activities

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(AfDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018) *

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, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)Board of Governors

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shide, Ahmed Living people Finance ministers of Ethiopia 21st-century Ethiopian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Ethiopian people of Somali descent Alumni of the University of Greenwich Alumni of the University of Sussex