Ambassador Taye Atske-Selassie Amde
Ambassador Taye Atske-Selassie Amde is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from January 2024. He previously served as a Minister and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia. From August 2018 to January 2023, he was Ethiopia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He also served as Vice President of the 74th United Nations General Assembly and as Vice President of the UNICEF Board of Directors in 2022 while in New York.
Ambassador Taye was Ethiopia's Ambassador to Egypt from January 2017 to July 2018, after previously serving in two senior positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: State Minister for Political Affairs from October 2015 to November 2016, and Director General for American Affairs from December 2010 to September 2015. He successively served as Consul-General in Los Angeles, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy in Washington D.C., and Counsellor at the Embassy in Stockholm between 1997 and 2010.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations at Addis Ababa University, Ambassador Taye earned a Master of Arts degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the University of Lancaster in England in 1989. Ambassador Taye has taken part in a number of academic fellowships and received certificatesin Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy from the International Peace Academy in Vienna, Austria, the African Centre for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC, and a certificate in Strategic Thinking from Yale to name a few.
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