H.E. Demeke Mekonnen

Patron of ESSS

A former Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia, from 2012 to 2024, and its Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2024. He was earlier Minister of Education, from 2008 to 2013, and before that vice president of the Amhara Region. He studied biology at Addis Ababa University and political science at the University of Bradford.