Zeynu Ummer | |
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| Director, UNDP Resilience Hub for Africa | |
| Assumed office May 2024 | |
| Commissioner General of the Ethiopian Federal Police | |
| In office 25 June 2018 – 22 October 2018 | |
| Appointed by | Abiy Ahmed |
| President | Mulatu Teshome |
| Prime Minister | Abiy Ahmed |
| Preceded by | Yared Zerihun |
| Succeeded by | Endashaw Tassew |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 October 1972 Cheha, Ethiopian Empire |
| Alma mater | University of Nairobi University of Addis Ababa |
Zeynu Jemal Ummer (born 20 October 1972) is an Ethiopian diplomat and statesman who is the current Director of the UNDP Resilience Hub for Africa since 2024. Previously, he served as Team Lead and Senior Chief Technical Adviser for the UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre based in Nairobi, Kenya.[1] Before joining the United Nations, he was a State Minister for Peace in Ethiopia from 2018 to 2019, and Head of the Ethiopian Refugee Agency and most notably, the Commissioner General of the Ethiopian Federal Police in 2018.[2][3][4]
- ^ "The Security-Development Nexus in Fragile Borderlands | World Bank Group". olc.worldbank.org.
- ^ Staff Reporter (25 June 2018). "Zeynu Jemal becomes Commissioner General of Federal Police Commission | Capital Newspaper".
- ^ "Third Intermission Retreat of Heads of Police Components held in Addis Ababa". UNOAU. August 8, 2018.
- ^ "Citizen: Ethiopia Plans to Close 27 Refugee Camps – Refugee Consortium of Kenya".