State Minister, Ministry of Education
Founder and President of St. Mary’s University (SMU)
Founding Director, International Network for Higher Education in Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU) and a former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture in Nigeria
Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation African Union Commission, ETHIOPIA
Secretary-General of the Organization of Southern Cooperation, ETHIOPIA
Vice Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration
Indiana Univeristy
Founding director of the FinTech program at KSU
President of Bahir Dar University (BDU).