Ahmed Shide

Ahmed Shide
Axmed Shiide
Shide in 2023
Minister of Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 October 2018
President	Sahle-Work Zewde
Prime Minister	Abiy Ahmed
Preceded by	Abraham Tekeste
Minister of Communication Affairs
In office 19 April 2018 – 16 October 2018
Prime Minister	Abiy Ahmed
Preceded by	Negeri Lencho
Succeeded by	post abolished
State Minister of Finance and Economic Development
In office 2009 – 1 November 2016
Prime Minister	Meles Zenawi Hailemariam Desalegn
Personal details
Born	Negele Borana, Ethiopia
Political party	Prosperity Party
Other political affiliations	Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party
Residence(s)	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Education	Ethiopian Civil Service College
Alma mater	University of Sussex (M.A) Institute of Social Studies (Diploma) Greenwich University (MBA)
Other offices March 2003 – September 2004: Chairman of Pastoral Affairs Committee (Somali Region) September 2004 – October 2005: Head of the President Office (Somali Region) October 2005 – September 2006: Head of Civil Service Improvement Bureau (Somali Region)

Ahmed Shide (Somali: Axmed Shiide) is an Ethiopian-Somali politician who is serving as the Minister of Finance since October 2018. He was the Minister of Communication Affairs from April until Abiy Ahmed cabinet dissolved the ministry in October 2018.^[1]

He was the former chair of the Somali political party of the Somali Regional State.^[2] He is a member of the federal parliament and was a member of the ruling party Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party (ESPDP). He is also member of Prosperity Party. He has also been serving as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed since 2018.^[3]