Demitu Hambisa Bonsa, in

Amharic Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all oth ...

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politician, who has held several ministerial posts under Prime Ministers

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and

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, including the Minister for Gender, Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Minister for Science and Research.

Biography

Hambisa grew up in the state of

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and belongs to the Oromo ethnic group. After completing school, she studied law at the

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, followed by a Masters in Leadership from the

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. After completing her academic training, Hambisa worked as a teacher at a secondary school from 1975 to 1996. In the mid-1990s, she gave up her job as a teacher and switched to the women's representative at the administrative district level, where she later also worked as the head of the district's education administration. From 2000 to 2005 she worked at the state level for the government of Oromia, where she worked, among other things, in the office of the ombudsman commission and was spokeswoman for the regional council of state of Oromia. In 2006 Hambisa moved to the Ethiopian federal government, where she initially headed the science and research department. She also headed the Ministry of Public Enterprises. During her tenure she explored closer links between the maritime industries of

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and Ethiopia, as well as the potential for closer trade connections with

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. From 2016 to 2018 she held the post of Minister for Gender. She has been outspoken about the problems of corruption and their relationship to gender inequality. In 2019 she held the post of Minister for Cabinet Affairs. In 2021 she was appointed as an ambassador by the Ethiopian government.

References

External links

H.E. Demitu Hambisa Bonsa speech In the Ministerial meeting on Gender, Women and Children in Rwanda

Interview with H.E. Demitu Hambisa, Ethiopian Ministry of Women and Children Affairs
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