Abiy Ahmed Ali was born August15, 1976, Beshasha, Ethiopia
His father, Ahmed Ali, was Muslim, and his mother, Tezeta Wolde, was Christian. Abiy is a Pentecostal Christian.
Abiy fought against the Derg (Dergue) regime, which ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991
While he was in the military, he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering in 2001 from Microlink Information Technology College in Addis Ababa.
In 2007 he was made head of the Information Network Security Agency, the Ethiopian government’s organization responsible for cybersecurity.
After leaving the military, in 2010 Abiy was elected to the House of Peoples’ Representatives as a member of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization
In the following years he would go on to earn a master’s degree in transformational leadership (2011) from the International Leadership Institute in Addis Ababa, in partnership with Greenwich University in London;
In 2013 a master’s in business administration from Leadstar College of Management and Leadership, in partnership with Ashland University in Ohio
In 2017 a doctorate from the Institute for Peace and Security Studies of Addis Ababa University.
Abiy was appointed minister of science and technology in the federal government in 2016
October of 2016 appointed to serve as the vice president of the Oromia regional government.
on March 27. On April 2 the House of Peoples’ Representatives elected him prime minister; he was sworn in on the same day
Abiy and Isaias on July 9 declaring that the state of war that had existed between their two countries for 20 years had come to an end.
In 2019 Abiy was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to resolve Ethiopia’s border conflict with Eritrea.
