Col (Rtd) Khalif Aden Shabell has over three decades of military experience and expertise having held Command, staff, and training appointments at senior level including serving as a Deputy Defense Attaché in London and leading a Kenyan Peacekeeping Contingent to Sierra Leone, besides other UN engagements in Sudan and Ethiopia.
Col Shabell retired from the KDF in 2014 and subsequently joined IGAD as a Senior Security Adviser to the IGAD Special Envoy to South Sudan from 2017 to 2022, playing a crucial role in the establishment of the security mechanisms and institutions within the terms of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan.
Col (Rtd) Shabell is a graduate of Camberley Staff College, UK, and also holds a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Human Development from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa as well as an advanced degree on security studies from the Nasser Higher Military Academy in Egypt.