He was a member of the negotiating team of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the Pretoria Peace Talks, where the Pretoria Peace Agreement was signed in November 2022. He has an LL.B. from Addis Ababa University Faculty of Law and an LL.M. from University Colleague London. He was a Senior Fellow, at Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard University. He was Assistant Director General for Global Issues at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He served as Ambassador & Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations Offices in Geneva and Vienna; Ambassador to Switzerland, and non-resident ambassador to Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania, and a deputy head of mission at the Ethiopian Embassy in Brussels. He was the legal advisor to Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the African Union Commission on International Law/2009-2014 and served in the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund Advisory Council.