Leadership

SEED’s leaders bring experience in business, investment, education and Islamic scholarship, and are guided by the organization’s mission to expand opportunity for the people of Ethiopia’s Somali Region.

Board of Directors

SEED is governed by a board responsible for its mission, its integrity and its long-term direction.

Suber Aqilyare

President

Suber Aqilyare is an investor and entrepreneur who chairs SEED’s board and sets its long-term direction.

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Amal Aqilyare

Board Member

Ustadha Amal is a scholar and educator of the Islamic sciences and the founder of Strive Sisterhood.

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More about SEED

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About

Who we are

SEED’s mission, vision and the principles that run through everything it does.

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Four areas of work

Education, human capital, agriculture and economic empowerment in the Somali Region.

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Evidence for the region

What SEED studies and how it publishes, openly, for the public and for government.

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