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Local Management Committee Biographies
Mulat Abegaz (PhD)
President of the Chemical Society of
Ethiopia
International Consultant Food
Safety & SPS
P.O. Box 121135,
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Tel. 0251 911 407824
mulatabegaz@yahoo.com
Mr. Yitbarek Alemu
YASCAI, P.O. Box 9739
Tel 0251 116 628161
Fax 0251 116 627842
e-mail yascai@yahoo.com
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Prof. Theodros Solomon
Department of Chemistry
Addis Ababa University
P.O.Box 1176
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
FAX: 251-011-123 94 70;
TEL 251-011-123 94 66 (Off.).
e-mail
theosolo@chem.aau.edu.et
theodros_solomon@yahoo.com
Mulat Abegaz (PhD), Ethiopian, birth date 02 April 1964, Educational background PhD in
Natural Science in 1997, MSc in Chemistry in 1990, BSc in Chemistry in 1986 and Diploma in
Social Science in 1995. Working experience (total about 20 years): more than 11 years at
different capacity as researcher, expert, and department head at different organizations
(Ministry of Industry, Environmental Protection Authority, Quality and Standards Authority of
Ethiopia) and since the last eight years as consultant in different international organizations
(UNIDO, GTZ, World Bank, WTO, ACP-EU-TDP, ESA-EPA, etc). Specific field of interest
include mainly food safety & technology (HACCP, GAP/GMP/GHP, GlobalGAP, BRC and
ISO 22000), quality & environmental management systems (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001),
laboratory accreditation (ISO 17025), food control systems and food trade, SPS/TBT related
issues of WTO and overall conformity assessment structures. Currently General Manager of
Quality, Inspection, Testing and Certification (QITC) Service PLC and Ass. Prof. of food
safety and quality of Department of Chemistry and Department of Chemical Engineering of
Addis Ababa University, President of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, & V/ President of
Ethiopian Inventors Association.
Mr. Yitbarek Alemu, has got his first degree in 1977 in Chemistry from Addis Ababa
University, Department of Chemistry and served for more than 31 years in the public and
private owned industries in different capacities that include technical & production head,
quality control head, R&D head, and researcher. Main interest includes industrial research
and providing technological solution for technological problems. Received national award
from Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission and an outstanding award from the
Chemical Engineers Society and the Chemical Society of Ethiopia for his invention to produce
industrial grade starch and adhesive from Enset and industrial sucess. Currently, General
Manager of Yitbarek Alemu Starch, Chemicals and Adhesive Industry (YASCAI) that produce
starch for textile and paper industries and adhesives for various industries. YASCAI has
designed, installed, and manufactured most of the equipments require for the starch and
adhesive processing plant. Mr. Yitbarek has served as executive committee member of the
Chemical Society of Ethiopia for a minimum of two terms.
Prof. Theodros Solomon has been a member of the Department of Chemistry, Addis Ababa
University since 1972. He has lectured at both the undergraduate and graduate programmes
and has served as Department Head for two terms, as Dean of the Faculty of Science, and
Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Besides these academic administrations, he has
also participated in numerous department and university-wide committees. He was the
founding secretary of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, and also served as President of the
Society. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of
Ethiopia, and presently is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Bulletin as well
as of SINET: Ethiop. J. Sci. and the Ethiopian Journal of Education. He has worked with the
Ministry of Education in their Committee for Charting the Future Direction of Higher Education
in Ethiopia, and the Committee for Capacity Building in Higher Education and . His
contribution in the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission include serving as

Local Management Committee Biographies
Chairman of the Steering Committee for preparing Country Papers on Basic Sciences in
Ethiopia.
At the international level, he has been a Member of the Advisory Committee on Higher
Education in Africa, UNESCO Office, Dakar, Senegal, a member of the Scientific Advisory
Board of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague,
The Netherlands, and of their Research Review Committee. He is presently a member of the
Reference Group of IPICS (International Programme in Chemical Science of the University of
Uppsala, Sweden) and reviews research proposals in Chemistry from developing countries in
Africa, Asia and Latin America.
His research interests include electrochemistry at liquid – liquid interfaces; biosensors;
chemical education; photoelectrochemistry; electrochemical detection of pollutants.
Dr Yonas Chebude
Department of Chemistry
Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
e-mail: yonasch@chem.aau.edu.et
Ahmed M. Mohammed
Department of Chemistry
Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
e-mail:
am_moha@chem.aau.edu.et
Yonas Chebude received his MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Technische Hochschule
Leuna Merseburg, Germany. He worked for some years as a project consultant in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia before pursuing his academic career to receive his PhD in Inorganic
Chemistry from the University of Wuppertal, Germany. His PhD research focussed on basic
research in fluorine and boron chemistry. He joined the Department of Chemistry, Addis
Ababa University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. He has been teaching Inorganic
Chemistry, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and has supervised more than
30 MSc theses and research projects.
He served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs for the Faculty of
Science (December 2005- September 2007).
Dr. Yonas Chebude is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Addis
Ababa University and is actively involved in both teaching and research. He is the project
coordinator of the Green/Sustainable Chemistry Unit at the Department, which tries to
promote Green/Sustainable Chemistry in Higher Education in Ethiopia. He is also an
executive member of the Federation of African Societies of Chemistry (FASC).
Dr Ahmed Mustefa, is Assistant Prof. of Computational Chemistry at the Department of
Chemistry, Addis Ababa University and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate
Program of the Faculty of Science, Addis Ababa University. Ahmed received his PhD from
University of Innsbruck, Austria and was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the Department of
Analytical Chemistry, Nagoya University, from 2002-2004.
He is member of the Executive Committee of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia and Executive
Secretary of the Federation of African Societies of Chemistry.