Assoc Prof Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele

Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Federal Studies, Addis Ababa University. Previously, he was a National Research Foundation (NRF) Post-doctoral research fellow under the South African Research Chair in (SARCHi) Multilevel Government, Law and Policy, at the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. He received LL.B from Addis Ababa University, Advanced Diploma in Federalism from the Institute of Federalism, Fribourg University, and LL.M and LL.D from the UWC. He was also a visiting researcher at the Institute of Federalism, Fribourg University, and the Catholic University of Leuven. He has widely published in the area of decentralisation and federalism in Ethiopia and Africa, including a book titled Local Government in Ethiopia: Advancing development and accommodating ethnic minorities Baden-Baden-Nomos Verlagsges.