Ahmed Abdillahi Mohamed

Ahmed Abdillahi Mohamed is a seasoned educational leader and senior executive with over two decades of experience driving impactful humanitarian and development programs across the Horn of Africa. He currently serves as the Country Director for Street Child in Somalia and Somaliland, operating from Hargeisa. In this role, Ahmed provides strategic, operational, and financial leadership to ensure vulnerable, marginalized, and displaced children gain access to safe, high-quality schooling.

A dedicated champion of foundational literacy and numeracy, Ahmed specializes in scaling evidence-based interventions, including the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) methodology and gender-transformative pedagogy. Throughout his distinguished career, which includes senior leadership roles with Africa Educational Trust (AET), he has successfully fostered equitable local partnerships and managed strategic diplomacy with the Ministries of Education in both Somaliland and Somalia. Ahmed excels in resource mobilization, proposal development, and donor relations with international partners such as UNICEF and the European Union. Backed by a strong background in business administration, financial management, and conflict studies, he continues to advance instructional leadership and systemic educational reform across fragile environments.