Gamal Mohamed Hassan
Gamal Mohamed Hassan (, ; born June 1973) is a Somali politician who is the current Minister of Planning and International Cooperation of the Federal Government of Somalia. Prior to this position, Mr. Hassan served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Somalia to the Republic of Kenya. Biography. He was previously a senior official at the U.S diplomatic mission in Nairobi, Kenya. On 2 April 2015, Hassan was appointed as the new Ambassador of Somalia to Kenya. Before joining the Government, he served as a Senior Political Advisor to the United States Special Representative  for Somalia (SRS) on political affairs and related democracy, governance, and human rights issues. He has also worked for the Government of Canada, Carleton University in Ottawa, and Canadem in Ukraine, and studied at Carleton and MOI Universities and obtained BA in Political Science and MA in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy respectively. Mr. Jamal Hassan is married with three children.