H.E. Mesganu Arga Moach

State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic

Republic of Ethiopia, January 2023 – To date;

- Ethiopia’s Deputy Chief Negotiator for WTO & AFCFTA

Government Posts and Professional Experience

- December 2021–December 2022, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ethio – Engineering

Group

- October 2018–November 2021, State Minister, Ministry of Trade and Industry

- May 2018–October 2018, State Minister, Ministry of Labor and Social Affair

- November 2017–May 2018, Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister

▪ H.E. Abiy Ahmed (PhD), Prime Minister

▪ H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegne, Former Prime Minister

- December 2013–November 2017, Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and

Special Envoy to the State of Qatar

- July 2010–September 2013, Consul-General at Ethiopian Consulate in Dubai, and

Head of Mission to the UAE

- 2008 –2010, Director General for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

- 2006 – 2008, Deputy Mayor and Bureau Head of Addis Ababa City Information and

Culture, City Cabinet Member, Addis Ababa Millennium Council Vice-Chairman

- 2005 – 2008, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia

Educational Qualification

- Post Graduate Studies on Peace and Security, Addis Ababa University

- Post Graduate Studies on International Relations, Brussels, Belgium

- BA Degree in History, Minor Geography, Addis Ababa University

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