Girma Wolde-Giorgis - Government Service

Government Service

  • 1941: Enlisted at the Ethiopian Military Radio Communication set up by U.K.
  • 1944: Graduated from the Oletta Military Academy as a Sub-Lieutenant
  • 1946: Joined the Air Force in and took various Air Management courses
  • 1948: Became assistant teacher in air navigation and flight control
  • 1951: Became Director General of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Planning at its establishment
  • 1955: Became head of Civil Aviation of Eritrea (Eritrea, at the time, was federated)
  • 1957: Assumed the post of Director General of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority and was Board member of the Ethiopian Airlines during the same period.
  • 1961: Became member of the lower house (Chamber of Deputies) of the Imperial Ethiopian Parliament
  • Elected speaker of the lower house (Chamber of Deputies) of the Imperial Ethiopian Parliament for three consecutive years.
  • Helped win a seat for the Ethiopian Parliament in the International Parliamentary Union and attended conferences of the IPU in Switzerland, Denmark and former Yugoslavia and was elected as Vice President of the 52nd Meeting of the International Parliamentary Union.
  • Served as Manager of the Import and Export Enterprise (IMPEX).
  • Served as deputy Commissioner of the Peace Programme drawn up in 1977 by the provisional military government of Ethiopia (Derg) to settle the Eritrean problem peacefully.
  • 2000: Became member of the House of Peoples' Representatives of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) after winning in the Becho woreda constituency, Mirab Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region, as an independent candidate in the second round elections

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