Dawit Yohannes | |
Native Name Lang: | am |
Office1: | Speaker of the House of People's Representatives |
Termend1: | 9 October 2005 |
Termstart1: | 1995 |
Successor1: | Teshome Toga |
Office2: | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
Termend2: | January 2011 |
Termstart2: | 30 May 2006 |
Successor3: | Abadula Gemeda |
Birth Date: | 10 October 1956 |
Birth Place: | Addis Ababa |
Death Place: | United States |
Alma Mater: | Addis Ababa University Georgetown University University of Amsterdam |
Dawit Yohannes (am|ዳዊት ዮሐንስ; 10 October 1956 – 28 January 2019) was the first Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives, the lower chamber of the Ethiopian Parliament, from 1995 to 2005. He was also the Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Dawit Yohannes was born in Addis Ababa on 10 October 1956. Dawit attended Addis Ababa University, Georgetown University and Southeastern University. In 2000, Dawit received a Master of Laws from the University of Amsterdam.[1] Dawit was married and has three children. He died on 28 January 2019, aged 62.