Prof Ayele becomes Director of Center for Federal and Governance Studies

The Dullah Omar Institute would like to congratulate its Extraordinary Professor, Zemelak Ayele, who has been appointed the Director of the Center for Federal and Governance Studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.

Zemelak Ayitenew Ayele 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.