Ali Haji Warsame

Ali Haji Warsame (, ; 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.

Personal life 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.

Warsame belongs to the Omar Mahmoud subclan of Majeerteen Harti Darod clan.

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. The first round of voting saw 8 of the 11 presidential contenders eliminated from the running. Warsame, incumbent Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamud Farole and former Prime Minister of Somalia Abdiweli Mohamed Ali "Gaas" subsequently moved on to the second round, where Warsame was eliminated. He received 16 votes versus 18 for Ali and 31 for Farole, with Ali eventually winning the ballot.

Puntland Minister of education On 28 January 2014, Warsame was appointed Puntland's Minister of Education by the new elected President Abdiweli Gaas. Warsame was later sacked by Puntland's president, Gaas while on visit to UK