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Tegegnework Gettu

Assistant Administrator and Head, Africa Bureau

Tegegnework Gettu heads the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Africa Bureau in addition to serving as Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. His diverse career spans UNDP, academia, government, and the private sector.

Gettu served as Chief of Staff and Director of UNDP's Executive Office (2006–2009); from 2003 until 2006, he was the UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Nigeria. Prior to 2003, Mr. Gettu was the Country Director for Southern Africa and Indian Ocean countries and Acting Resident Representative in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

During his academic career, he was a fellow to Columbia University; Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the University of Rochester in New York, Hunter College, and Addis Ababa University. He has also worked in Ethiopia's Ministry of Planning and Economic Development and the private sector.

Mr. Gettu has been in his current position since February 2009.

Focus: Development, Environment, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, United States, Africa, Americas, Oceania

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