Perspective

Bassem Bibi has more than two decades of experience in the medical equipment industry, specializing in interventional cardiology, vascular, endovascular, cardiac surgery and orthopedics. In 2019, Bassem joined Abbott’s Rapid Diagnostics business as Vice President and General Manager for Infectious Disease focusing on emerging markets and Africa. From 2015 to...

For more than a decade, Kenichi Ohno (Professor), one of the commended Japanese economic scholars used to be closely attached to Ethiopia's industrial development policies. He was involved in the high-level dialogues that used to get and talk with ministers and mid-level officials at least biannually. More often, previous prime...

Kojo Bentum-Williams is the Publisher-VoyagesAfriq Travel Media and United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Senior Expert for Communications in Africa. Here, he reflects with Samuel Getachew of The Reporter on the latest challenge of tourism in the midst of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), on promoting tourism, on Ethiopia and the potential he...

Orlando Sosa is an agriculture officer specializing in crops with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) working under the Sub Regional Office for Eastern Africa. Sosa holds an MSc degree in Plant Protection and Entomology from Newcastle University, UK. He has 24 years of plant protection and plant health regulatory experience. Sosa...

Trevor Jenner is a lifelong traveler with vast knowledge and experience on traveling across Ethiopia. He has written a new travelers handbook - Ethiopia Travellers' Handbook - with references on travelling in Ethiopia. Here, he reflects with Samuel Getachew of The Reporter on his own biography, experience, on his handbook and suggest ways...

Mark Warner is a Toronto-based Canadian and American trade lawyer. He has had a long association within the continent, including providing technical assistance and legislative drafting advice to the governments of Ethiopia, South Africa and COMESA.  In addition, he has taught trade law at various universities around the world, including...

Ibrahim Mayaki is chief executive officer of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), which is currently transforming into the African Union Development Agency (AUDA)—the implementing arm of the AU. AUDA-NEPAD was created in Niamey, Niger, in July 2019, during the African Union summit. Its creation was one result of...

Lutz Hartmann is an International lawyer who specializes on corporate law, sales and acquisitions. He is also a farmer in Sodo, in Ethiopia. Here, he reflects with The Reporter's Samuel Getachew on his adventurous journey in Ethiopia, a nation he knew little about few years ago, some of the projects he...