Berhane Ghebray

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Berhane Ghebray (* 1938 in Addis Ababa , Empire Abyssinia , today: Ethiopia ) is an Ethiopian diplomat , lawyer and manager who was ambassador to Belgium between 1979 and 1989 and secretary general of the AKP group from 1989 to 1994 .

Life

Berhane Ghebray studied law at the University of Toulouse and, along with Hagos Gebre Yesus, was one of the Ethiopian representatives at the international student congress in Lima in spring 1959 . After graduating with a diploma from the University of Toulouse, he earned a PhD in Philosophy from the Sorbonne , the University of Paris . In 1964 he was a co-founder of the legal journal The Journal of Ethiopian Law . He was part of the Fulbright program as a visiting scholar at Columbia University and also lecturer in law at Addis Ababa University and entered the diplomatic service of the Abyssinian Empire. In 1979 he succeeded Lij Michaël Imru as ambassador to Belgium and permanent representative to the European Community and remained in this position until 1989, after which he was replaced by Wolde Amanuel Hailu. As such, he was also President of the ACP Ambassador Group to the EC from March 1, 1983.

In December 1989 Berhane Ghebray was elected as the successor to Edwin W. Carrington, who came from Trinidad and Tobago , as Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States Group ( ACP Group ), an international organization currently comprising 79 countries in Africa , the Caribbean and the Pacific Pacific , which were mostly former colonies of France and Great Britain . Because of his “non-membership” in the English or French-speaking member states, he was considered a candidate for compromise. He held this position until 1994. After Carl Greenidge from Guyana had temporarily held the office between 1994 and 1996, Ng'andu Peter Magande from Zambia took over this post in 1996 . Before that, there was another one-year dispute between the English and French-speaking member states of the ACP group over Berhane Ghebray's successor.

After leaving the AKP Group, he started working as a lawyer in Addis Ababa in 1995 and founded the law and consulting firm Berhane Ghebray and Associates . He later also took on functions in business and was a director of the Bank of Abyssinia as well as chairing the board of directors of Access Capital Services SC . Since June 2011 he has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zemen Bank SC .

publication

  • L'Organisation de l'Administration locale en Ethiopie , 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bahru Zewde: The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, C. 1960-1974 , p. 106, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2014, ISBN 1-8470-1085-7
  2. ↑ Ethiopia Investment and Business Guide , p. 96, Volume 1, IBP, Inc., Lulu.com, 2015, ISBN 1-5145-2835-5
  3. ↑ PATRONS OF THE JOURNAL OF ETIDOPIAN LAW
  4. ↑ Former Ambassadors (Homepage of the Ethiopian Embassy in Brussels)
  5. ↑ Ethiopia-EEC Relations , p. 4, issue 45, 1983
  6. ↑ Urte Schneider (editor): Afrika Jahrbuch 1989: Politics, Economy and Society in Africa south of the Sahara , p. 21, Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-3229-2639-7
  7. ^ Franz Nuscheler , Otto Schmuck (editor): Die Süd-Politik der EG: Europe's development policy responsibility in the changed world order , p. 130, Europa Union Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7713-0431-8
  8. ^ African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States: Secretaries-general (rulers.org)
  9. ↑ Charlotte Bretherton, John Vogler: The European Union as a Global Actor , p. 273, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 1-1347-4777-2
personal data
SURNAME Ghebray, Berhane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian diplomat, lawyer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Addis Ababa , Abyssinia Empire , today: Ethiopia