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About Prof. Kinfe Abraham top
Described as one of the leading thinkers of Africa by the Africa world Journal [AWJ ],he is at present the president of the International Institute for Peace and Development (Ethiopia), but also serves as president of the HADAD International Lobby and Chief Political Advisor of IGAD. He has previously served as Director General of Political and Humanitarian Affairs and as Acting and Deputy Executive Secretary of IGAD. Further, Professor Kinfe Abraham has worked for Agencies of the UN System such as the ILO, UNDP, and for SIDA and lectured as visiting Professor in schores of Universities and Institutions in the US, UK, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Austria, China, India, South Africa, other African countries and the UN headquarters. He has also chaired and convened several international conferences. On themes of International and Regional Security and Conflict Management, Economic Integration and Tranboundary Resources, the Hydropolitics of the Nile and food security, the Ethio-Arab and Middle Eastern Relations, NEPAD and the African Union, and figured in the International media including CNN, the BBC, ITV, ETV, CBS, KBC and the Germen, Canadian, Swedish TV and Radio Networks. |