Makonnen Kebret Explained

Makonnen Kebret
Office:	Ambassador of Ethiopia to China
Successor:	Mulugeta Estephanos
Office2:	Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development
Successor2:	David Stephen Muduuli ^[1]
Education:	Imperial College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts Dire Dawa (today Haramaya University).
Alma Mater:	1961 Master of Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1962–1964 Apptd. from Ambo Agrar School (AS). 1964 Ph.D. Cornell University

Makonnen Kebret (1935–1990) was an Ethiopian diplomat.Makonnen Kebret was a specialist in agricultural education.

From 1948 to 1968 he was professor and dean of the College of Agriculture, Addis Ababa University.
From 1968 to 1971 he was associate academic vice president of the Addis Ababa University.
From to he was first Ethiopian ambassador in Beijing.^[2]
From 1975 to 1990 he was employed at the Awash River Valleys Agricultural Development Authority (VADA) 1977 and the Ministry of Agriculture (Ethiopia).
From 1986 to 1991 he was Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development.^[3]

published

The contribution of agricultural education to the rural development of Ethiopia. Cornell Univ., 1964

Executive secretary: David Stephen Muduuli was appointed in October 1990 to work alongside Makonnen Kebret and to succeed him from Jan. 22, 1991. Founded: 1986. Membership: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda.
David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, Window on the Forbidden City: The Beijing Diaries of David K. E. Bruce, 1973–1974, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong Press, 2001, 653 p., p.465
Web site: Biographie de KEBRET, Makonnen. operationspaix.net. 2016-08-14.