Azeb mesfin biography of albert

Azeb Mesfin, First Lady of Ethiopia (wife of Prime Minister)

Azeb Mesfin is an Ethiopian women’s right activist, businesswoman, member of parliament, and a political spouse.

She is also the vice-president of Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS and founder and patron of Ethiopia’s National Initiative for Mental Health. In early 2009, she was appointed deputy head of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray by its CEO Abadi Zemu.

Azeb is the wife of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and the mother of three children, Semhal, Marda and Senay Meles.

She was elected in 2005 to the House of Peoples Representatives (the lower House of the Ethiopian Parliament) representing her home woreda of Wolqayt, and serves as chair of its Social Affairs Standing Committee. Her role has at times been controversial, with some members of Ethiopia’s diaspora alleging that, during the period in which she was an exe