Zemedeneh negatu biography for kids

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We spent a remarkable evening with Zemedeneh Negatu, Global Chairman of Fairfax Africa Fund on our December Mella Monthly event.

Zemedeneh Negatu is a distinguished Ethiopian-American business leader, global strategist, and investor, renowned for his significant contributions to economic.

Completed the LSE programme, Harvard.

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Zemedeneh Negatu is a distinguished Ethiopian-American business leader, global strategist, and investor, renowned for his significant contributions to economic.!

Zemedeneh Negatu. (Courtesy photo)

Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff

Published: Monday, December 30th, 2013

New York (TADIAS) — As a teenager in 1978 when Zemedeneh Negatu headed to the United States with his future uncertain, he had no idea that three decades later he would be named one of Africa’s 100 Most influential individuals for his role in promoting economic growth in the country of his birth and in Africa.

The current Managing Partner of Ernst & Young Ethiopia (EY) received the accolade last month from New African Magazine, which called him “a truly global citizen” and further noted that “anyone who has done business in Ethiopia will have come across Zemedeneh Negatu” or Zem, as he is affectionately known.

In a follow-up interview with Tadias Magazine during his recent trip to Washington, D.C., Zem said that his decision to return home in 1998 was inspired by “love at first sight” during a vacation trip to Ethiopia