Minelik Alemu Getahun

Ambassador Minelik Alemu Getahun is Special Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister/ Foreign Minister of Ethiopia/Policy Issues since 2021. He holds an LL.B. from Addis Ababa University Faculty of Law and an LL.M. from UCL. Minelik was a Fellow/Senior Fellow at Harvard ALI/2021 and ADG at WIPO. He served as Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Switzerland/as a non-resident ambassador to Austria/Bulgaria/Hungary/Romania, as the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the UN in Geneva/Vienna, and as a Deputy Head of Mission at the Ethiopian Embassy in Brussels. He was the Legal Advisor to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a member of the AU Commission on International Law/2009-2014, and of EDTF/2018-2023.

 

(February 2023)