Guled Salah Barre | |
Birth Place: | Garowe, Nugal, Somalia |
Native Name: | Somali: Guuleed Saalax Barre |
Alma Mater: | University for Peace (PhD) Omdurman Islamic University (BA) |
Office: | Puntland Minister of Environment and Climate Change |
Office1: | Director of SIDRA |
Office2: | Chairman of TPEC |
Term Start: | 2014 |
Termstart1: | 2017 |
Termstart2: | 2019 |
Termend2: | 2022 |
Termend1: | 2019 |
Term End: | 2016 |
Website: | . |
Birth Date: | 1980[1] |
Gulleid Salah Barre is a Somali politician who served as the Chairman of the Transitional Puntland Electoral Committee from 2019 to 2022 and as the Puntland Minister of Environment and Climate Change from 2014 to 2016. He is the founder and first director of the research institute SIDRA and has worked with the UNDP and UNFPA. He also became a professor and vice president at the University of East Africa in Garowe.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Gulled Salah Barre was born in Garowe.[7]
Barre graduated from Al-Waha Secondary School and holds a Ph.D. from the United Nations University for Peace, focusing on the Federalism in Somalia, he earned a master's degree in Business Development (MBA - International Business) from Amity University, Mumbai and a bachelor's degree in statistics from Omdurman University.[7]
Barre served as the Chairman of the Transitional Puntland Electoral Commission (TPEC) and prior took on the role of Puntland Minister of Environment and Climate Change. He also the founder and first director of the research institute SIDRA.[8]
Barre collaborated with international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund, he assumed responsibilities as a professor and vice president at the East Africa University in Garowe.