Beyene Petros

Beyene Petros
በየነ ጴጥሮስ
Born(1950-03-11)11 March 1950
Kaffa Province, Ethiopian Empire
(present-day Hadiya, Central Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia)
Died17 September 2024(2024-09-17) (aged 74)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Academic
  • politician
Political party

Beyene Petros (Amharic: በየነ ጴጥሮስ; 11 March 1950 – 17 September 2024) was an Ethiopian politician and educator who was the professor of Biology at Addis Ababa University and a former member of the Ethiopian House of People's Representatives, representing an electoral district in Badawacho of Hadiya Zone. He was the chairman of one of the largest opposition political parties in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Forum Medrek.[1]

  1. ^ "House of Peoples' Representatives of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia" Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Ethiopian Parliament website (accessed 6 October 2009)