Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru

Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru

Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru is Member of the African Union High Level Advisory Group on Humanitarian Affairs and Consultant for Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Strategy, Peace and Security and Migration.

Dr. Mehari is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University, a specialist in human rights and humanitarian law, lectures at UN Institute for Economic Development and Planning in Senegal, and African Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) and NATO Defense College (NDC). He has made presentations at the policy organs of the AU, IGAD and UN including the AU Peace and Security Council, and UN Human Rights Council forums. He was also a Programme Coordinator, and Legal Expert at African Union Commission, Programme Head for Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis, and Director for University Reform. Dr. Mehari was a fellow at Harvard, Oxford Universities, Max Planck Institute and NATO Defense College. He holds a Doctorate of Legal Sciences (DSL) from JL Giessen University, Germany, an MPA from Harvard, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and an LLB from Addis Ababa University. His recent book entitled ‘The Kampala Convention and Its Contributions to International Law’, examines the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons – which entered into force on 6 December 2012.

Twitter: @meharitaddele

Valletta Summit on Migration: A booster shot or a new initiative?

Hard hit by the migration crisis, the European Union (EU) in a desperate effort to respond to the crisis has called a summit on migration in Valletta, Malta from 11-12 November 2015.  The African side has been invited to participate in this meeting.  The EU and African Union (AU) have…

Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru

Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru is Member of the African Union High Level Advisory Group on Humanitarian Affairs and Consultant for Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Strategy, Peace and Security and Migration.