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Abebe Haregewoin
Dr, Abebe Haregewoin is an Ethiopian physician trained in radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School and PhD in immunology from the University of Oslo. His career has been equally divided between academia and research in the biopharmaceutical industry. He is semi-retired and spends his time between occasional clinical practice, educating his fellow Ethiopians and other citizens mostly via social media, travel, and exercise.
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Ambassador Kassa TekleBerhan Gebrehiwot
H.E. Kassa Tekleberhan Gebrehiwot, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopian to the United States of America, served his government for more than thirty-five years in various capacities. Ambassador Kassa Gebrehiwot was born and raised in the ancient town of Seqota, (Amhara Region) where he began his life-long service to his nation. He worked with his colleagues for the establishment of a democratic system in Ethiopia that paves the road for the protection of human rights and promotion rapid economic development. His public service is both extensive and diverse including work in the legislative and the executive branches at the regional and the federal ...Read More
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Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Dr. Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His most recent research covered aspirations and wellbeing, the impact evaluation of large multi-year public programs (including the Productive Safety Net Program and the Agricultural Growth Program, both in Ethiopia), weather index insurance, performance of cooperatives, crop productivity, and inter-sectoral growth linkages. He is the current president of the Ethiopian Economics Association. Alemayehu has previously worked as an assistant professor of economics at Addis Ababa University and an economic affairs officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. He holds a Dr. of Philosophy degree in Economics from the University of ...Read More
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Ingida Asfaw
Professor Ingida Asfaw, M.D., F.A.C.S is an internationally recognized pioneer cardiac surgeon. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He received his MD degree from Indiana University, completed his postgraduate training at Wayne State University and his fellowship at Texas Heart Institutte. In 1999, under his visionary leadership, the Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association (ENAHPA) was formed with the mission and purpose of enhancing healthcare access, delivery and quality and mitigating the healthcare crisis in Ethiopia. Also, transfer of knowledge, skills, technology and sustainable capacity building and education / training. He has published numerious articles in the peer review journals and written ...Read More
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John Ishiyama
Professor John Ishiyama is a distinguished research professor of political science and lead editor of American Political Science Review at the University of North Texas. Ishiyama is an executive board member of both the Midwest Political Science Association and of Pi Sigma Alpha (the national political science honorary society). Ishiyama is also an author and has research interests that include comparative politics: democratization and political parties in post-communist Russian, European, Eurasian and African (especially Ethiopian) politics, ethnic conflict and ethnic politics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Ishiyama has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from Bowling Green State University, a Master of Arts in Russian and ...Read More
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Mammo Muchie
Professor Mammo Muchie is currently a DST/NRF research professor of innovation studies at Tshwane University of Technology, a fellow at the South African Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences, and an adjunct professor at the Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. Muchie has been Senior Research Associate at the SLPMTD program and is currently the Senior Research Associate at the TMCD Centre at Oxford University collaborating with researchers on diffusion of innovation in low income countries and the potential new research area of Africa-China industrial high-technology sectors. In 2009, Mammo Muchie founded the African Journal on Science, Technology, Innovation and Development of which he is also the ...Read More
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Mulu Solomon
Mulu Solomon is General Manager of Right Vision Int. PLC, which is involved in export, import, training, research, management, leadership and investment consultancy. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations. Mulu Solomon is currently serving as honorary president, advisory group member for Sub-Sahara Africa for IMF-World Bank group, advisory group member for Tuning Africa Academy, Africa TEVT Expert group. She has served as Vice-Chair of the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Vice Chair of COMESA Business Council (CBC). She is an author, motivational speaker and lecturer. Solomon holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s ...Read More
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Paulos Milkias
Professor Paulos Milkias, from the Political Science Department at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, earned his MA and Ph.D. [Dean’s Honor List] from McGill University. His major publications include: Ethiopia: A Comprehensive Bibliography (G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1989) that is widely cited in the Oxford Guide to Library Research, 2001; The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on the Historic Victory of Ethiopia over European Colonialism [Co-edited] (Algora Publishing, 2005); Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia (Cambria Press, 2006); Developing the Global South: A United Nations Prescription for the Third Millennium (Algora Publishing, 2010); Paulos Milkias Dictionary of Ethiopian Christianity (University Press of America, 2010) Education, Politics and Social Change in ...Read More
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Jang Gyu Lee
Professor Jang Gyu Lee is the President of Adama Science and Technology University. Before he joined ASTU in October 2011, he was a Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea for 30 years. Prior to join Seoul National University, he was a technical staff at The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Reading, Massachusetts and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts in the U.S. He received a B.S. from Seoul National University in 1971, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh in 1974 and 1977, respectively, all in electrical engineering. As an academic person, his research interests include theory and applications of linear ...Read More
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Mammo Muchie
Professor Muchie holds a DPhil in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Development (STI4D) from the University of Sussex. He is currently a DST/NRF Research Professor of Innovation Studies at Tshwane University of Technology. He is also a NRF rated Research Professor. He is a fellow of the South African Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences. He is currently adjunct professor at the Adama Science, Technology University, Ethiopia. He has been senior research associate at the SLPMTD programme and now has become also Senior Research Associate at the TMCD Centre of Oxford University collaborating with researchers on Diffusion of Innovation in Low Income Countries ( DILIC) and the ...Read More
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Merera Gudina Jefi
Dr. Merera Gudina Jefi is associate professor of political science and international relations at Addis Ababa University, where he previously served as chair of the department of political science and as a member of the academic commission of the College of Social Sciences. He is a former member of the Ethiopian Parliament (2005–2010) and is currently leading two opposition groups, the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) and the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Unity Forum (MEDREK). He is the author of two books on political developments in Ethiopia—Ethiopia: From Autocracy to ‘Revolutionary Democracy’: 1960s–2011 (2011) and Ethiopia: Competing Ethnic Nationalisms and the Quest for Democracy: 1960–2000 (2003)—as well as several articles in academic ...Read More
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