Ethiopia

Rediet Tefera has two and half years of experience as a physician. For the past two years, she worked in a rural hospital. Currently, Rediet is a general practitioner at an international cardiac hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Previously, she was head of an inpatient ward facility and contributed significantly to the delivery of quality… read more »

AssefaMesganaw Assefa has experience working in the areas of governance, human rights, and education. He currently serves as a national Peace Expert for the Ministry of Federal Affairs where he advises on strategic directions, policy formulation, and capacity building efforts in its conflict prevention and resolution tasks. He also teaches law for undergraduate students at… read more »

Elshadai Hailu Asmir is a recent graduate of Addis Ababa University School of Law and Governance studies. Elshadai hopes to pursue a career in human rights. Elshadai Hailu Asmir has held internships at the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR), the Ethiopian Federal Supreme Court, and Human Right Council-Ethiopia (EHRCO). As a young activist in the… read more »

Bemnet Zegeye Ashenafi has over one and a half years’ experience as a general practitioner at the Bichena District Hospital. She currently the heads the in-patient department. She also works for the advancement of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the hospital. She completed research on the determinants of perinatal asphyxia at Bichena Hospital,… read more »

Baye Eyasu Ashebr is a Disability Advocate with over three years of experience working at Aflatoun,Ethiopia a child social and financial education program. He is also a Facilitator at DIRES for Development Charitable Association. Previously, Baye has worked as a trainer and coordinator teaching Ethiopian Sign language and Deaf Culture at Addis Ababa University. Baye… read more »

A pan-Africanist, Zemdena Abebe is a visionary Political Science and International Relations graduate, activist, and budding writer engaged in women rights in particular and social justice in general. Zemdena volunteers for the African Union at the Academy of African Languages, Mali, as marketing and research assistant. She consulted for UNICEF Ethiopia for six years in… read more »

Hewan Solomon Areaya is a women’s rights advocate and a Campaign Organizer in a youth initiative called the Yellow Movement AAU, which works on women’s rights advocacy and women’s empowerment. Her role as a campaign organizer includes organizing weekly activism, a blood drive for maternal mortality eradication, and fundraisers to support female students who are… read more »

Tigist Getachew has seven years’ experience in business strategy and related fields. In parallel with the UN job where she stayed four years, she worked pro bono with several local startups on financing, strategic planning, and business plans, while also managing the first fast-moving consumer goods industry analysis for Ethiopia for Euromonitor International. In 2013… read more »

Thomas Weldegiorgis Aragaw has more than a year and a half experience in information technology software engineering. Currently, Thomas is system software engineer and project manager at Mulu Technology, where they focused on providing a fleet management system and software development. Thomas Weldegiorgis Aragaw holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, with a focus… read more »

Fikru Aragaw has over ten years’ experience in the automotive engineering sector and entrepreneurship. Currently, Fikru owns and manages his own company, Meri Publishers, focusing on publishing books on driver’s education and automotive technology. He also volunteers and runs a community service project called ‘Road Safety for Children’, which is focused on training elementary school… read more »

Abdela Alite has over seven years of experience in different departments of South Omo zone health department, first in drug supply and distribution expert for about a year, then as a quality control process coordinator for another two years. Currently he is head of the department, coordinating about 33 health centers, 247 health posts and… read more »

Esmael Habtamu has eight years of experience in eye care research and service delivery. He has coordinated large collaborative research projects on the management of the blinding stage of trachoma, an infectious blinding eye disease. He has delivered surgical service to thousands of people who were at risk of losing their sight from trachoma. Esmael… read more »

Azeb Asaminew Alemu is a psychiatrist who has more than four years of experience treating patients with mental illness and teaching medical students. Currently, she works as an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Debre Markos University, where she teaches medical students and medical interns with the aim of bridging the mental health service gap in… read more »

Abraham Mekonnen Alemu has over six years’ experience in human capital management in different sectors. Currently, Abraham is a human resources manager responsible for HR activities and operations such as planning, acquisition, talent development, performance management, and staff compensation. In doing so, he ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of the HR and organizational systems. He… read more »

Michael Tekie Alemu is an Ethiopian lawyer and entrepreneur with three years of experience in corporate law practice. Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Axiom Financial Technologies,Ethiopia. a start-up that uses artificial intelligence to assess creditworthiness and avail financial education and loans to farmers and small and medium enterprises, to whom formal financial services… read more »