Berhanu Nega
| Prof. Berhanu Nega ፕ/ር ብርሃኑ ነጋ |
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| Born |
December 6, 1958 Bishoftu, Ethiopia |
| Nationality | Ethiopian American |
| Alma mater |
New School for Social Research State University of New York Addis Ababa University |
| Occupation | Economics Professor Politician |
| Political party | Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Nardos Minasse |
Berhanu Nega (born 1958) was the mayor elect of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the Ethiopian general elections, 2005. He is a founding chairman of the Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice and a Deputy Chairman of Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), for whom he served as chief election campaign strategist. He is also the co-founder and Leader of Ginbot 7, an anti-government rebel group. He has been labelled a terrorist by the Ethiopian government.
Born in Bishoftu, Berhanu attended Addis Ababa University where he participated in the student movement against the ruling Derg government in his freshman year. When the government acted against political dissidents in 1977, Berhanu with other radical student activists fled to Mount Asimba in northern Ethiopia. After a division within the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP), he was detained for openly criticizing killings within the EPRP. After a few months, he was released by his captors and crossed into the Sudan where he lived for two years until he was granted political asylum in the United States.
He did his undergraduate degree in economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz and got his PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research, in New York City. During that time, he became one of the organizers of an annual conference on the "Horn of Africa" that debated and analyzed the political, social and economic conditions in the sub-region. For over five years, it served as a forum for intellectual dialogue among political leaders, policy analysts and researchers interested in developments in that part of Africa.
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