A. Anne McLellan is a Canadian politician and academic who served as the ninth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. She was a cabinet minister in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin,and represented Edmonton in the House of Commons of Canada. She also held the positions of solicitor general,minister of health,and minister of justice of Canada.
Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe is an Ethiopian politician who served as prime minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018. He also previously served as deputy prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi from 2010 to 2012. After Meles' death in August 2012,Hailemariam succeeded him as prime minister,initially in an acting capacity. He was then elected as the chair of the EPRDF,the ruling party,on 15 September 2012. Hailemariam also served as the chairperson of the African Union from 2013 to 2014.
The Ethiopian Civil Service University (ECSU) is a public university in Ethiopia. Its purpose is capacity building in the public sector. It is located in the capital city of Addis Ababa and was founded in 1995.
Christina Alexandra Freeland is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth and current deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and the minister of finance since 2020. A member of the Liberal Party,Freeland represents the Toronto riding of University—Rosedale in the House of Commons. She was first appointed to Cabinet following the 2015 federal election.
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a former Canadian politician,diplomat,lawyer,and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada from June 1993 until her defeat in November that same year. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister,she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.
Ethiopia is a landlocked sovereign country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north,Sudan to the west,South Sudan to the south-west,Kenya to the south,Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the north-east. Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world and Africa's second-most populous nation. Ethiopia has yielded some of humanity's oldest traces,making the area important in the history of human evolution. Recent studies claim that the vicinity of present-day Addis Ababa was the point from which human beings migrated around the world. Ethiopian dynastic history traditionally began with the reign of Emperor Menelik I in 1000 BC. The roots of the Ethiopian state are similarly deep,dating with unbroken continuity to at least the Aksumite Empire and its predecessor state,D`mt. After a period of decentralized power in the 18th and early 19th centuries known as the Zemene Mesafint,the country was reunited in 1855 by Kassa Hailu,who became Emperor Tewodros II,beginning Ethiopia's modern history. Ethiopia's borders underwent significant territorial expansion to its modern borders for the rest of the century,especially by Emperor Menelik II and Ras Gobena,culminating in its victory over the Italians at the Battle of Adwa in 1896 with the military leadership of Ras Makonnen,and ensuring its sovereignty and freedom from colonization. It was occupied by Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy from 1936 to 1941,ending with its liberation by British Empire and Ethiopian Patriot forces. Its eastern border also changed in 1950 from the former 1908 Convention Line to the subsequent provisional administrative line.
Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu is a Tongan civil servant,diplomat and former Cabinet Minister. From 2005 to 2009 she was Tonga's permanent ambassador to the United Nations,and from 2017 to 2021 she was United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries,Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. From 2021 to 2024 she was minister of foreign affairs.
Marvi Memon is a Pakistani politician who recently served as Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme,from February 2015 until June 2018. She had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2011 and again from June 2013 to May 2018.
Kuma Demeksa is an Ethiopian politician. Since 24 April 2015,he has been an Ethiopian ambassador to Germany. From 2008 to 2013 he was mayor of Addis Ababa;previous positions include President of the Oromia Region (1995–2001),and Minister of Defense (2005–2008). He was one of the founders,as well as a current member,of the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization (OPDO),which is part of the ruling coalition,the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
Junedin Sado is an Ethiopian politician who served as the president of Oromia Region from 2001 to 2005. He was a member of Meles Zenawi's cabinet and the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization.
Sahle-Work Zewde is an Ethiopian diplomat who served as president of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2024,the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed,also known as Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohammad,is a Somali economist and politician. He has held leadership positions with various international organizations,including the World Bank,USAID,African Union/IBAR,the European Union,the Bank of Canada,COMESA,and the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.
Muktar Kedir is an Ethiopian politician who was President of the Oromia Region from 18 February 2014 to 20 September 2016.
Bardish Chagger is a Canadian politician who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Chagger has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Waterloo since the 2015 federal election.
Maha Ali is a Jordanian politician and industrial engineer who served as Minister of Industry,Trade and Supply of Jordan from October 2020 to October 2021,in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh.
Michael Wernick is a Canadian retired public servant who served as the 23rd clerk of the Privy Council for Canada from 2016 to 2019. Following his tenure as clerk,Wernick joined the University of Ottawa,where he was named Jarislowsky chair of public sector management.
Mary Catherine "Molly" Phee is an American diplomat who has served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs since September 2021. She previously served as the U.S. ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister counselor.
Abiy Ahmed Ali is an Ethiopian politician who is the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018 and the leader of the Prosperity Party since 2019. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation,and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea". Abiy served as the third chairman of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) that governed Ethiopia for 28 years and the first person of Oromo descent to hold that position. Abiy is a member of the Ethiopian parliament,and was a member of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP),one of the then four coalition parties of the EPRDF,until its rule ceased in 2019 and he formed his own party,the Prosperity Party.
In the face of widespread protests against the government,Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned from office on 15 February 2018,becoming the first politician to resign from office in modern Ethiopian history. The day prior,he announced in state television that his resignation is "vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy," linked to the 2014–2016 unrest in Oromia Region,in which hundreds were killed by government crackdown in Oromia and Amhara Region between 2015 and 2016.
