Berhanu Nega

Berhanu Nega
ብርሃኑ ነጋ
Official portrait, 2025
Minister of Education
Assumed office
6 October 2021
PresidentSahle-Work Zewde
Taye Atske Selassie
Prime MinisterAbiy Ahmed
Preceded byGetahun Mekuria
Mayor-elect of Addis Ababa
In office
20 August 2005 – 13 October 2005
Preceded byArkebe Oqubay
Succeeded byBerhane Deressa (acting)
Personal details
Born (1958-12-06) 6 December 1958
PartyEthiopian Citizens for Social Justice
Other political
affiliations
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party
Coalition for Unity and Democracy
Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy
Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice
SpouseNardos Minasse
Children2
Alma materAddis Ababa University
State University of New York at New Paltz (BS)
The New School (PhD)
Occupation
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Berhanu Nega (Amharic: ብርሃኑ ነጋ; born 6 December 1958) is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as the current Minister of Education since 2021. He previously was the mayor-elect of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the 2005 Ethiopian general elections. 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. Until mid-2018, he was labelled a terrorist by the Ethiopian government.