Salim Said Salim

Executive Director

Salim is a legal expert and academic with extensive experience in legal education, research, and institutional leadership. He holds an LL.B. from East Africa University (EAU), Somalia, an LL.M. specialising in Public Law from Al-Bahr University, Sudan, and a Master’s degree in Education, specialising in Educational Planning, from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

He is currently pursuing a PhD in Law and Governance at the European Law and Governance School (ELGS), focusing his research on legal pluralism and access to justice in Somalia. He previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Puntland State University, where he has taught constitutional law, human rights, administrative law, and criminal law since 2011. He is currently the Executive Director of the Somali Institute for Development Research and Analysis (SIDRA), where he previously served as a Research Fellow.