H.E Ahmed Ali Dahir was born on January 01, 1970 in Baidoa, Bay region in Somalia. He obtained the title of law graduate. H.E. Dahir graduated from the Somali National University in Mogadishu with a Bachelor in Law in 1988 and holds a Master of Arts in Administration and Management from Makerere University in Uganda.
He first served as a District Judge in the Bay and Bakool regions of Somalia, and was subsequently appointed in the same region as a Public Prosecutor (Deputy Attorney General), between 1993 and 1996. He worked first for an international organization dedicated to peace building and conflict resolution in the Horn of Africa region, and then joined in 1995 a Nairobi based law firm where he worked on criminal and civil cases, Mr. Dahir served from 1996 to 1998 as Vice- President and then as President of the Supreme Court of the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia.
Mr Dahir July 2014 Appointed as the Attorney General Federal Republic July 2014 till to Nov-2019. Mr Dahir also represented Somalia leading as a senior Counsel at the ICJ in the maritime delimitation dispute between Somalia and Kenya, where Somalia has won a full hearing on its case. Mr Dahir builds and strengthened ties with regional prosecution agencies, and engaged on prison transfer agreement s between Somalia and other countries. Somalia the historic appointment of the first six female prosecutors since 1991 took place in 2015, he has been involved in the review of the 1962 Penal Code, and various legislations including the Anti-Terrorism Bill.
H.E Ahmed Ali Dahir now he is the Ambassador of Federal Republic of Somali in India, and also accredited for Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Nepal, on December 2021.
