Techeste Ahderom
Techeste Ahderom | |
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 Ahderom speaking at the Millenium Forum at the United Nations. | |
| NSA member | North East Africa 1966 - 1975 Ethiopia 1975 - 1990 |
Techeste Ahderom is an Ethiopian Bahá’í who has served the Bahá’í International Community most notably as the body's official representative to the United Nations.
Background[edit]
Ahderom completed his higher education in the United States completing a Masters Degree in architecture at Iowa State University and additional Masters Degrees in city planning and transportation at Yale. He then settled in Ethiopia where he worked in the field of urban development and renewal, manufacturing, agriculture, and construction of public buildings, becoming the general manager of the National Urban Planning Institute in Addis Ababa and serving as the President of Asmara University from 1979 to 1983.[1] [1]
In his personal life Ahderom is a Bahá’í, having been introduced to the religion by Heshmatollah Farhoumand,[2] and he served as the secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa from 1966 to 1968 and as a member of the body up until 1975 when it was reconstituted as the National Spiritual Assembly of Ethiopia. He then served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Ethiopia as secretary up until 1979, vice-chair from 1980 to 1983, and chair from 1983 to 1990. At some point he married fellow Bahá’í Alasebu Gebre Selassie, who also served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Ethiopia, and they had three children; Selam, Sewit, and Senai.[1]
In 1990 Ahderom moved to New York in the United States when he was appointed as the representative of the Bahá’í International Community to the United Nations.[1] He served in the position until 2001,[3] after which he returned to Ethiopia where he continued to work with the Bahá’í International Community serving as the representative of its African Regional Office as of 2016.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 American Baha'i, Vol. 22(6), p 9
- ↑ Bahá’í World In Memoriam: 1992 - 1997, p 264
- ↑ Baha'i Canada, Vol. 16(4), p 37
- ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/1124/
