Hilina Belete
Deputy General Manager of Hilina Enriched Food Processing. Ms Belete is a young woman who understands being young is not an obstacle, but an opportunity.
Sara Abera
Fashion designer and founder of Muya Ethiopia P.L.C. Sara has created hundreds of community jobs through export and innovation. Muya won a first place Millennium Award for woman exporters in the handloom sub-sector.
Mulumebet Iori
Founder of Byogenic Beauty Spot. A pioneer in the Ethiopian beauty industry, Mulumebet founded a beauty education training centre launching approximately 700 Ethiopians into the Ethiopian job market. Also co-founder of GMM Garment P.L.C.
Meaza Ashenafi
Chairperson Enat Bank, Lawyer & Women Activist in Ethiopia. Meaza contributed to the inclusion of women and children’s rights provisions in the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia. She was identified as one of the five prominent women’s rights activists worldwide.
Samrawit Moges Beyene
Founder & Managing Director of Travel Ethiopia. A leader, multi-business owner, pioneer, a true trailblazer in the travel industry and inspiration to many women in Ethiopia and aboard.
Nigest Haile
Founder & Executive Director of Center for African Women Economic Empowerment (CAWEE) in Ethiopia. Nigest received an award from the Department of State, United States of America, in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to the development of women-led businesses. Nigest invests in the international potential of women.
Yetnebersh Nigussie
Educator, Director, Founder from Ethiopia. "It is not your inabilities, but your abilities that make the woman." An inspirational woman who believes her blindness does not interfere with her 99 abilities. Perspective is everything.