Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
- leader of the Peace and Development Party, which he founded in 2011
- worked as a civil society activist, teacher and administrator before entering politics
- worked with the United Nations Children's Fund after Somalia's government collapsed in the 1990s
- part of the team that negotiated the dismantling of the so-called "green line" that divided Somali's capital, Mogadishu
- founding member of the Somali Institute of Management and Administration Development