Board of Directors
Dr. Alemiye Mamo
Board Member
An astronomer, science communicator and advocate for space diplomacy, with more than twenty years in space science and astronomy in Ethiopia and across Africa. He helped lay the Society's early foundations, and took part in the growth of the Entoto Observatory and Research Center, and of the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute into today's Space Science and Geospatial Institute.
As a Board Member of the Ethiopian Space Science Society, his work joins science, policy and diplomacy: international collaboration, capacity building, and astronomy in education and regional development.
He studied physics to a master's degree and did his doctoral research in astronomy and astrophysics at the Entoto Observatory. An alumnus of the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program (2025), he champions science and technology entrepreneurship, dark-sky protection and astro-tourism.
