Mrs. Beza Tesfaye

Vice Chair of the Society's Board of Directors, and one of its founding members in 2004. In 2018 she became the first woman to lead the Society's office, as its General Manager. Over more than a decade she has worked across the African space sector with students, young professionals, governments, universities and industry, and has been instrumental in advancing Ethiopia's national space agenda with government and the public alike.

With the Space Generation Advisory Council she was National Point of Contact for Ethiopia from 2010 and then Regional Coordinator for Africa. Her awards include the Council's Young Space Leaders Award (2013), the International Astronautical Federation's Emerging Space Leader award (2015), the African Union's Young Space Leaders Award (2018), the Council's African Space Leader Award (2021), and a certificate from the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (2021) for her contributions to the space sector in Ethiopia and Africa.

She studied global studies and international relations at New Generation University College and computer science at HiLCoE in Addis Ababa, and took her master's in international relations and diplomacy, with a focus on space policy, at Addis Ababa University.