Mr. Mohamud Hassan Ali holds an Advanced Diploma in Fishery Management and BSc in Fisheries and Coastal Management. He is the Head of Section of Marine Biodiversity Conservation at the Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy of Federal Republic of Somalia, with vested practical experience and skills in small scale fisheries assessment, management and stakeholders’ engagement. He also has some practical skills in marine megafaunal assessment and monitoring. He is the founder of a local NGO known as SIFO FISH ORGANIZATION based Southern Somalia, from where he has drawn interest on mangrove conservation and management, which gave him credit to serve as the Western Indian Ocean Mangrove Network Country Representative for Somalia.