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Dr. Mohamed Omar Hagi Mohamoud ( Somali: Dr. Maxamed Cumar Xaaji Maxamuud,
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: محمد عمر حاج محمود ) (born January 1981), also known as Dr. Mohamed Hagi is a Somali diplomat, politician and academic currently serving as the Chief Representative of the
Republic of Somaliland Representative Office in Taiwan The Republic of Somaliland Representative Office in Taiwan ( Chinese: 索馬利蘭共和國駐台灣代表處); (Somali: Xafiiska Wakiilka Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland ee Taiwan) is the representative office of the Republic of Somaliland in the Republi ...
. Mohamed combines considerable distinctive feats of being a professional person in the various fields of diplomacy, academia, policy making programmes and strategic systems of governance. Mohamed also gives academic lectures and presentations to postgraduate students in politics, diplomacy and international affairs mainly about Africa, the Middle East and recently in the Asia Pacific region. Prior foreign diplomatic posting, Mohamed has been a Senior Political Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Somaliland. He also formerly served the Ministry of Finance Development as a Senior Policy Adviser on strategic planning and the macroeconomic policy reform. During the first year of President Silanyo, Mohamed served as Maritime Security Consultant to Somaliland Coast Guard - the position was not political but technical. Prior public career, Mohamed also worked with the Local and international Non-Governmental Organisations in Somaliland and abroad as an Executive Director, Programme Manager and a Senior Policy Adviser.


Formal education and early life

Mohamed was born and raised in
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. He began his early Mal'amad Qur'an and primary schooling in 1986 in Hargeisa, which later disrupted by the Somali Civil War in 1988. Mohamed continued his primary and intermediate formal education from Sheikh Madar and Biyo Dha'ay schools soon after Somaliland restored its sovereignty from the union with Somalia in 1991. He later became the first Somaliland students enrolled Farah Omar secondary School in 1996 after the war. Mohamed also studied higher education diplomas of Business Administration and Project Management from local colleges in Hargeisa, Somaliland. He then officially joined the Non-Governmental Humanitarian and Development Organisations operating in Somaliland and Somalia. During humanitarian fieldwork operations with the International and Local NGOs, Mohamed travelled different urban and rural places in East Africa, particularly Somaliland,
Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
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Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
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. This operation buttressed his experience in Somali socioeconomics, social structure, and political culture as well as societal change. He later moved to the UK for his higher education where he studied Political Science, Security Studies, International Development and Philosophy. Mohamed obtained all his higher education degrees in the
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. He did his PhD in Politics and International Relations at
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. He subsequently attended the
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where he completed his
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in Political Science, a
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Degree in Security Studies and a Masters Degree in Politics and International Studies.


Higher education

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Academic career

Mohamed is a political analyst, and contributes to both Somali and English-speaking media and newspapers. He also published articles on globalization, policy papers on Africa and global trading system, ethnic conflicts in Africa as well as elements of good governance and foreign aid. Other areas of published opinion articles include the homegrown Somaliland peace-building and democracy as well as theories of foreign aid dependency in the Least Developed Countries. Mohamed is currently working on his first book; Turkey's Strategic Advantage in Sub-Saharan Africa.


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