Bihi Iman Egeh

Bihi Iman Egeh (Somali: Biixi Iimaan Cige, Arabic: بيحي إيمان عغي) is a Somali politician serving as the current Minister of Finance of the Federal Government of Somalia since July 2023. Under his leadership, Somalia qualified for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative completion point on 13 December 2023.

Bihi hails from Hargeisa and is currently serving his second term as a member of the Federal Parliament of Somalia, having first won this seat in the 2016 election.

== Education ==

Bihi holds a Master of Studies in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Oxford, where he studied at St Antony’s College in 2018. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in global studies and international relations from New Generation University College in Addis Ababa.

== Political career ==

Bihi was first elected to the House of the People in December 2016 and retained his seat in November 2021. The African Development Bank's biographical note says that he served as secretary of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee.

While he was Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, the ministry, the International Labour Organization, the Federation of Somali Trade Unions and the Somali Chamber of Commerce...