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Resume of Speaker of the House of Peoples'Representatives of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Hon. Ambassador Teshome Toga

	Hon. Ambassador Teshome Toga, 46, was elected Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives of the FDRE on 10 October 2005. Born in 1959 in Wolayta, Southern Nations, Nationalities Regional State, he attended primary and secondary school in the Wolayta Awaraja Comprehensive High School and Completed in 1978. At tertiary level, he joined the Addis Ababa University where he obtained his B. sc in Statistics in 1982. He also joined the Cairo Demographic Center and graduated in 1984 and 1985 with General and Special Diploma in Demography respectively. Again he did his Master of Philosophy in Demography at the same Center , Cairo in 1986.
Speaker Teshome, married , father of three
POLITICAL AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER SERVICES Member of the Executive Committee of EPRDF & SEPDM Sept. 2006 Member of the SEPDM/EPRDF, member of Wolayta Zone Council and Council of the South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State from Jan. 1995 – Oct. 5, 2005. He also served as member of the first House of Federation from 1995-2000. Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture on Oct. 16, 2001- Oct. 9, 2005. DIPLOMATIC CAREER Member of IPU Executive Committee Oct. 2007 Member of the ACP-EU JPA Burean and ACP vice President on Human Rights Nov.2007 Special Envoy of the Prime Minister to the IGAD Secretariat on Peace in Sudan from Oct. 1997-Oct. 2001. Ambassador extraordinary Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Ghana, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with residence in Cairo, the Republic of Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania from Nov. 1992 to Dec. 2001. Permanent Representative to UNEP and Habitat/UNCHS in Nairobi in the same period. ACCREDITATION TO INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES He attended and led delegations to various international meetings among which the following are the major ones. Head of Parliamnetary Delegation to ACP-EU JPA, Nov. 2005 In Africa , he attended an OAU Summit meeting in 1993 and led delegations to Ministerial Council and Liberation Committee meetings of the OAU between 1992 and 1994. He was also member of the OAU Observer Team to the 1992 Angolan elections and Ethiopia 's delegation to Regional Summits on Burundi and the Regional Sanctions Coordinating Committee as well form 1997 to 2001. Head of Parliamentary Delegation to 114th, 116th IPU Internationally, he led a delegation to the Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1994 and was a member of the delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994. RESEARCH WORKS AND PUBLISHED PAPERS His area of research focuses on various aspects of population and demography like fertility, mortality and vital registration. The research outputs, both published and unpublished, are generally meant to discuss problems and issues, identify trends and indicate implications. On mortality and fertility he has two published research papers. A paper on “differential child mortality by some socio-demographic characteristics of mothers in Dar-es-Salaam' was published in Studies in African and Asian Demography in 1987. A comparative study on ‘effects of child loss experience on fertility attitudes' in Egypt , Ghana and Lesotho was also published on the same journal in 1988. He has also unpublished papers, which he conducted on Regional Patterns of Fertility, Child Survival and Fertility; Levels, Trends and Regional Variations of Reproduction, Completeness of sample Vital Registration System and Implications of Population Variables for Development in Ethiopia AWARDS Certificate of Honor from the Federation of World Peace and Love, South Korea, on July 26, 2002. Certificate of Appreciation from the GOI Peace Foundation, Japan, on November 2003.