Top governmental positions Farole has held in the past include a stint as Finance Minister of the northeastern Puntland province of Somalia under the region's first president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, and as governor of the Nugaal region in the 1990s.[7][8] He later served as Planning Minister in the regional government of Mohamud "Adde" Muse Hersi,[7] the former president of Puntland.