Sahle-Work Zewde

Her Excellency Sahle-Work Zewde
ሣህለ ወርቅ ዘውዴ
Sahle-Work in 2022
President of Ethiopia
In office 25 October 2018 – 7 October 2024
Prime Minister	Abiy Ahmed
Preceded by	Mulatu Teshome
Succeeded by	Taye Atske Selassie
Under Secretary-General, Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union
In office 27 June 2018 – 25 October 2018
Appointed by	António Guterres
Preceded by	Haile Menkerios
Succeeded by	Hanna Tetteh
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi
In office 2011–2018
Appointed by	Ban Ki-moon António Guterres
Preceded by	Achim Steiner
Succeeded by	Hanna Tetteh
Ambassador to Senegal with accreditation to Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Guinea
In office 1989–1993
President	Mengistu Haile-Mariam Tesfaye Gebre Kidan Meles Zenawi
Personal details
Born	(1950-02-21) 21 February 1950 (age 74) Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire
Political party	Independent
Education	University of Montpellier

Sahle-Work Zewde (Amharic: ሣህለ ወርቅ ዘውዴ, born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian diplomat who served as president of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2024, the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.^[1]

American business magazine Forbes, on its annual edition of the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, listed Sahle-Work as the 93th most powerful woman in the world, making her the highest-ranking African woman on the list.^[2][3]