Month October 2025

Prof. Marie-Laure Derat

Marie-Laure Derat is a historian and director of research at CNRS (Orient et Méditerranée, Paris). A specialist of medieval Ethiopia, she is particularly interested in the Christian kingdom in terms of the territorial organization of powers, Christianization processes and religious…

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Dr. Berga Lemaga

Berga Lemaga has over 34 years of post-PhD experience in agricultural research and development and 26 years in leading regional initiatives, networks and projects. He led the International Potato Center (CIP)-Country Offices in Uganda and Ethiopia. He made a significant…

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Prof. Bereket Kebede

Bereket Kebede is a professor in Behavioural Development Economics based at the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia, UK. He did his undergraduate studies at Economics Department, Addis Ababa University followed by masters and DPhil/PhD at Oxford University.…

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Prof. Ib Friis

Born 1945. Cand. scient. in Biology, Copenhagen 1970. Phil. dr., Uppsala 1985. Dr. Scient., Copenhagen 1992.Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen 1970-1993. Professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark 1993-2015. Then Professor Emeritus.Fieldwork in Ethiopia in 32 periods 1970-2018. In…

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