Dr. Habiba Mohamud is the President/CEO of IMPACT Institute
of Canada, and has spent the last 13 years in the public service applying her
skills, knowledge, and passion contributing to evidence-based policy
development for the Government of Alberta. In 2018, she was honoured to receive
the Alberta Premier’s Public Service Award, in recognition of her work in the
area of public policy innovation. Her research interests revolve around
internal displacement, transnational migration, sustainability living condition
for everyone, social class, and social justice. Habiba’s fundamental belief is
to provide an understanding of complex feedback on socio-economic and environmental
context, identifying cause-effect relationships with models and indicators in partnership
with stakeholders that require clear understanding of the problems to be solved,
important risks and uncertainties, comprehensive “big picture” effects and
potential trade-offs of alternative solutions. Habiba holds a PhD in
Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta; MA Rural Sociology, University
of Alberta, and a BSc in Agriculture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture
and Technology, Kenya. Although Habiba is honoured to hold membership in the
prestigious Golden Key International Honour Society and continues to be a
collaborator with the University of Alberta on Immigrant Health Research and
Gender Relations in Immigrant Families, she has not been able to curtail her activities
to purely academic pursuits. Habiba’s commitment to community and family
well-being and her strong belief in giving back is appointer to her devotion of
much of her time volunteering with grassroots organizations assisting youth and
immigrant families with their settlement in Edmonton.
Her energy, vision, and philosophy of diversity and
inclusion are emblematic of the representation she feels honoured to provide to
vulnerable individuals and families. The compassion Habiba shows to the
multicultural community she serves is an inspiration for us all.
