Hassan Ali Khaire

Mohamed Hassan Ali Khaire (or alternatively transliterated as Hassan Ali Khayre; Somali: Xasan Cali Khayre; Arabic: حسن علي خيري; also popularly known as Hassan Khaire; born April 15, 1968) is a former prime minister of Somalia. He was appointed on 23 February 2017 by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed "Farmaajo" and resigned on 25 July 2020, after MPs passed a disputed vote of no confidence.

Khaire is a former oil executive. He has been a regional director of the Norwegian Refugee Council charity and served as the director of the British oil company Soma Oil and Gas.

== Background ==

=== Early life and education ===

Hassan Ali Khaire was born in the central Somalia town of El Buur on April 15 1968 and moved to Mogadishu when he was 9 months old; he completed his primary and secondary schooling in Mogadishu . At the onset of the civil war, Khaire moved as a refugee to Norway in 1991, where he enrolled at the University of Oslo in 1994.

After graduating in 1998 with a degree in political science and minor in sociology, Khaire went on to complete his MBA at Edinburgh Business School, the graduate business school of Heriot-Watt University, in 2001.

=== Personal life ===

Khaire is a dual citizen...