Zenawi CV

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1. Contact Address
Full Name Zenawi Yibrah Weldearegay
Address:- Addis Ababa, Yeka Sub-city, Wereda 07
Phone:- +251911470805 (Mobile)
E-mail: Zenawelde21@gmail.com
2. Work Experience
2.1 Senior Legal and policy advisor, researcher and college
Instructor in the FDRE, Ministry of Defense, September
2005-November 2023
Responsibilities
 Provides advices on various legal and policy issues to top officials including the
minister of ministry of defense.
 Initiates, Conduct, and supervise researches on different strategies, policies,
security sector reform programs, military laws and Military Justice affairs,
defense governance systems and rule of law, Gender related issues
 Prepares and/or, as appropriate, supervises proposed acts, bilateral and
multilateral agreements and other relevant legal instruments
 Assesses staff development needs, and provides/recommends training,
coaching and mentoring or other activities to increase technical and
professional skills
 Ensures the provision of high quality advise on operational laws and other
laws to commanders throughout the chain of command.
 Reviews existing legal and policy documents, identify gaps and proposes
recommendations on possible solutions.
 Identify training needs and develop training materials. Provides and facilitates
tracings for the military personnel.
 Coordinates activities of partners and serves as a focal person for international
organizations in relation to mainstreaming /integrating human rights, gender,
protection of civilians and children into regular and irregular training schemes
of the defense Forces.
 Liaises with relevant federal and state justice organs and security institutions
as well as national and international organizations.
 Represents the Ministry of Defense in technical meetings and/or trainings,
workshops organized by Inter-governmental regional security organizations.
 Oversees the functions of military justice organs.
 Participates in and as appropriate coordinates ad hoc committees, working
groups on development/preparations of strategic plans, reform initiatives.
 Reviews draft proclamations/regulations and bilateral and multilateral treaties
prepared by other government institutions and provides opinions on their
consistencies with the tasks/mandates of the Ministry of Defense.
 Provide legal advise and support on the development of necessary documents
and conducting negotiations regarding peacekeeping missions.
 Served as a Judge in the Appellate Military Court.
 Follow up civil cases litigations to ensure that legal interests of the institution
are protected.
2.2. Senior legal Expert(Military Lawyer) in Ethiopian National

Defense Forces. July 1999-2005
Responsibilities
 Headed the Registrar of the Military Courts; supervised the defense lawyers
department; military prosecution department—directed military crimes
prosecutions and supervised military crime investigations.
 Served as a Military Judge in the Primary Military Court :
 Senior policy and legal drafting expert; carried out researches on military
laws and military justice .
 Participated in military justice reform programs and led sub-committees.
 Delivered trainings on various laws
Head, legal affairs Section of ENDF Training Main Department;

Judge in the appellate military court; Advisor to the ENDF Peacekeeping
Center ; Member, National Technical Committee for the Federal Justice Reform
Program
Director, Air Force Legal Affairs Directorate; Member, Defense

Reform Steering Main Committee; Coordinator, various teams working on
Reform Program
Peace keeping mission experience
 Legal advisor to the Ethiopian contingent, deployed to Burundi, under African

Union Mission in Burundi (AMIB and UN) September, 2003 – September
2004.
 Staff officer, UNISFA (united nations interim security force for Abey) acted as
its liaison officer in Juba, South Sudan, January, 2012 – January 2013.
2.4 Investigation Experiences

 Secretary, Eastern Africa Standby Force(EASF) Board of Inquiry (BOI) –
convened by the council of ministers of defense of EASF member states.
Served as the legal advisor of the BOI, prepared its final report.
 Head of delegation, National investigation Teams (TIN) convened by the
Ethiopian government and approved by UN – deployed to south Sudan, in
different times to investigate various allegations against Ethiopian peace
keeping personnel and/or units in South Sudan.
2.5 Teaching /Training experience
Taught More than ten courses of law in Different colleges/Universities
2.6 Writing Experience

Prepared 8 Legal course Modules for colleges/Universities; 7 Training
Manuals(books) on topics such as Constitution and the Military, Good Governance
and the Military; Enforcement of Human Rights in the Military; Federalism and
the Military; Armed Conflicts and Children….
3 Education and Training

3.1 . Education
LLM (Master of Laws) in ’ International Economic and Human
Rights Law, 31 January 2005 – 2 June 2007. University of
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
LLB- (Bachelor of Laws), Addis Ababa University, 1995 – 1999,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
3.2 Trainings: Relevant Courses
 National Foreign Relations and Security Policies and Strategies

 Strategies to Build Professional National Defense Forces
 National strategies on trans-boundary threats
 Strategies for Combating trans-boundary crimes
 Strategic planning and situation analyses
 Military operational Planning
 Security situation analysis and developing response mechanisms
On issues related to conflict/Peace and Security:
 Conflict prevention, management and peace building.

 Human rights and combating terrorism in East Africa.
 Non-state armed Groups in East Africa.
 The African peace and security Architecture.
 Mission, mandates and tasks of the EASF (Eastern African
Standby force);
 Gender and conflict,
 Security sector reform, Good Governance and Rule of Law
 Civil military coordination (CIMIC) and DDR.
 GBV and SEA in conflict zone
 Peace keeping missions Pre-deployment and Induction courses and on
mission training;
 History and evolution of UN peacekeeping Missions: successes and
challenges
 Peace keeping, peace enforcement and peace building
 Human Rights and peacekeeping operations
 Understanding, analyzing and implementing peacekeeping mission
mandates and other mission-specific legal documents/instruments
 Code of conduct for peacekeepers
 UN Code of Conduct, SOFA
 Situation analyses and reporting
4 Skills
 MS office, Lotus, power point
 Instructor, Researcher
5. language
 Tigrigna: Native
 Amharic: Federal Working language
 English: Professional Language
6. Reference
Lt.Gen Yohhanes Gebremeskel, Former UISFA Head of Mission, UNMISS Force

Commander,
Phone:
Email:
B.Gen. Meshesha Areda: Director, ENDF Legal Affairs Main Directorate
Phone: +251911866633
Email:
Col. Fiseha Zewdie: Former CEO of the office of the Minister of the Ministry of
National defense
Phone: +251011993260
Email:

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CURRICULUM VITAE

2.2. Senior legal Expert(Military Lawyer) in Ethiopian National

Head, legal affairs Section of ENDF Training Main Department;

Director, Air Force Legal Affairs Directorate; Member, Defense

Peace keeping mission experience

 Legal advisor to the Ethiopian contingent, deployed to Burundi, under African

2.4 Investigation Experiences

2.5 Teaching /Training experience

Taught More than ten courses of law in Different colleges/Universities

2.6 Writing Experience

3 Education and Training

3.2 Trainings: Relevant Courses

 National Foreign Relations and Security Policies and Strategies

On issues related to conflict/Peace and Security:

 Conflict prevention, management and peace building.

Lt.Gen Yohhanes Gebremeskel, Former UISFA Head of Mission, UNMISS Force

B.Gen. Meshesha Areda: Director, ENDF Legal Affairs Main Directorate

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