Mehari Taddele Maru

Professor Mehari Taddele Maru is currently the Chair of Pan African Agenda Institute, Academic Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) and Part-time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance, and Part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Luiss University. Previously, he served as Lead Strategist for GAD Task Force on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Legal Expert and Programme Coordinator for Migration at the Office of the Legal Counsel of the African Union Commission (AUC). He also served as Chief Strategist, Lead Migration Expert and Legal Drafter for the IGAD and the AU High-level Advisory Group. Prof. Mehari Taddele Maru is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities. He holds a PhD in Legal Sciences from JL Giessen University, Germany, an MPA from Harvard, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and an LLB from Addis Ababa University. Please visit Professor Maru’s website: Professor Maru’s website. He has contributed to globally reputable journals and made media appearances discussing a range of regional and international issues. Many of his articles, published in international and African journals, are available at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7137-9140