Suldaan Said Ahmed

Suldaan Said Ahmed (born 12 February 1993) is a Finnish politician who is a member of the Helsinki City Council for the Left Alliance. Said Ahmed served as a Member of the Finnish Parliament for Helsinki from September 2021 to April 2023, and is the first Somalian-born member of the Finnish parliament. In July 2022, Said Ahmed was appointed Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs' Special Representative on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa. Since April 2023, he has also been a member of the Peace Mediation Roster of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Life and career Said Ahmed was born in Mogadishu and immigrated to Finland in 2008 through family reunification. He lived in Kontiolahti, North Karelia, and moved to Helsinki in 2011. Said Ahmed has a security guard education and has also worked as a community worker for the Helsinki Deaconess Foundation.