Salih Abdel Mageed Eldouma is a development specialist in the fields of agriculture, rural development, natural resources management, conflict reduction, and livelihood recovery. He has been the Executive Director of SOS Sahel Sudan since 2014, when he led process of transforming the SOS Sahel International UK program in Sudan into a national NGO. Salih began his career at the Sudan Ministry of Agriculture as an agriculture extension officer. He then worked in a variety of capacities with Oxfam Great Britain, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), and Oxfam America, where he established the Sudan country program and lead a partnership and capacity building program with national NGOs. Salih is a founding member of six civil society organizations in Sudan.

Salih has an MSc in agricultural development and rural finance from the University of Bradford in the UK.