Sahle-Work Zewde

President of Ethiopia

21 February 1950 Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire

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Incumbent

5th President of Ethiopia This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by their given name, Sahle-Work, and not as Zewde. Sahle-Work Zewde (Amharic: ሣህለወርቅ ዘውዴ , born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat who is the 5th and current President of Ethiopia since 2018, being the first woman to hold the office. She was elected president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018. American business magazine Forbes, on its annual edition of the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, listed Sahle-Work as the 96th most powerful woman in the world, and the highest-ranking African woman on the list.