Arkebe Oqubay | |
Native Name: | ኣርከበ ዑቕባይ |
Native Name Lang: | ti |
Office1: | Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia |
Term Start1: | 2018 |
Primeminister1: | Abiy Ahmed |
Office2: | 28th Mayor of Addis Ababa |
Term Start2: | 2003 |
Term End2: | 2005 |
Predecessor2: | Ali Abdo |
Successor2: | Berhane Deressa |
President2: | Girma Wolde-Giorgis |
Primeminister2: | Meles Zenawi |
Nationality: | Ethiopian |
Birth Place: | Adwa, Tigray Province, Ethiopian Empire |
Arkebe Oqubay (Tigrinya: ኣርከበ ዑቕባይ; born 1957) is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018.
Arkebe is a member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front.[1] He has been at the centre of policymaking and government leadership for over thirty years.[2] Oqubay has been a member of the core leadership of Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the movement that spearheaded the seventeen-year popular liberation struggle. During the liberation movement, Oqubay was a member of the executive council responsible for socio-economic affairs of the liberation army and liberated areas.[3] He is strongly backed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.[4]