Mersie Ejigu

Mersie Ejigu is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability "and president, founder, and chief executive officer of Partnership for African Environmental Sustainability (PAES). Mr. Ejigu has served as Assistant Director General for Programmes and Policy of IUCN - The World Conservation Union based in Gland, Switzerland. In his home country, Ethiopia, Mr. Ejigu served as Minister of Development Planning as well as Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He has served as consultant to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UNICEF, the World Bank, IMF, the African Development Bank, USAID and DFID on sustainable development strategies, natural resource assessment, program formulation and evaluation. Trained in macroeconomics and agricultural economics, Mr. Ejigu has researched and written widely on sustainable development and environmental security issues."