Birtukan Mideksa

Birtukan Mideksa (Amharic: ብርቱካን ሚደቅሳ; born 27 April 1974) is an Ethiopian politician and former judge who has served as chairwoman of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) from 2018 to 2023. She was the founder and leader of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party from 2008 to 2010.

Birtukan Mideksa was born in Addis Ababa. She attended Miazia 23 missionary elementary school and later the Yekatit 12 secondary school also known as Etege Menen School. After graduating from high school, she attended Addis Ababa University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In 2014, Birtukan received Master of Arts (M.A.) in Public Administration from Harvard University.[5] She is the mother of a daughter named Haale Mideksa.

In 2011, Birtukan resigned from politics and went to the US, to study at Harvard. She was awarded the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, giving her five months in Washington, D.C. to “study the principles of democracy.” As of March 2013, Birtukan was a fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

Starting from mid-2014, she had been working as Researcher at National Endowment for Democracy until her return to Ethiopia in November 2018 following the 2016 Ethiopian protests which resulted in an end to the 27 years of the TPLF led EPRDF government.

Encouraged by the political reforms started by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in April 2018, Birtukan returned to Ethiopia in November 2018. On 23 November 2018, she was elected and sworn in as chairwoman of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) replacing incumbent Samia Gutu. Birtukan announced her resignation from this position on 26 June 2023 through her Facebook page; she submitted her resignation to Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives on 12 June and will continue to serve as NEBE chairperson until 7 August.

Source: Wikipedia

በኢትዮጵያ ፖለቲካ ውስጥ በአቋም ጽናትና በአመራር ብቃቷ በምትታወቀው ወይዘሪት ብርቱካን ሚደቅሳ የተዘጋጀው “መመለስ፦ ቦጌ ትውስታዎቼ” የተሰኘ ርዕስ የተሰጠው አዲስ መጽሐፍ ለንባብ በቅቷል.