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This is a list of Presidents of Ethiopia. Since the establishment of the office of President in 1987, there have been 6 official presidents. The President is the head of state of Ethiopia. The current President is Mulatu Teshome, elected in 2013.

The list also includes Chairmen of the Derg, which acted as heads of state of Ethiopia between 1974 and 1987.

List

Name Portrait Birth–Death Elected Took office Left office Political party
(Coalition)
Derg (Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia) (1974–1987) •
style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color; color:black;"| 1 Aman Mikael Andom 1924–1974 12 September 1974 17 November 1974
(Resigned)
Military
style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color; color:black;"| — Mengistu Haile Mariam
Acting Chairman
1937– 17 November 1974 28 November 1974 Military
style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color; color:black;"| 2 Tafari Benti 1921–1977 28 November 1974 3 February 1977
(Assassinated)
Military
style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color; color:black;"| 3 Mengistu Haile Mariam 1937– 3 February 1977 10 September 1987 Military /
Workers' Party of Ethiopia
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1987–1991) •
style="background:Template:Workers' Party of Ethiopia/meta/color; color:white;"| 1 Mengistu Haile Mariam 1937– 1987 10 September 1987 21 May 1991
(Resigned)
Workers' Party of Ethiopia
style="background:Template:Workers' Party of Ethiopia/meta/color; color:white;"| — Tesfaye Gebre Kidan
Acting President
1935–2004 21 May 1991 28 May 1991
(Deposed)
Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Transitional Government of Ethiopia (1991–1995) •
style="background:Template:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front/meta/color; color:white;"| — Meles Zenawi
Acting President
1955–2012 28 May 1991 22 August 1995 Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1995–present) •
style="background:Template:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front/meta/color; color:white;"| 4 Negasso Gidada 1943– 1995 22 August 1995 8 October 2001 Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)[1]
style="background:Template:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front/meta/color; color:white;"| 5 Girma Wolde-Giorgis File:President+girma woldegorgis.jpg 1924– 2001
2007
8 October 2001 7 October 2013 Independent
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)
style="background:Template:Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front/meta/color; color:white;"| 6 Mulatu Teshome 1955/56– 2013 7 October 2013 Incumbent
(mandate expires on 7 October 2019)
Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Expelled from both the OPDO and the EPRDF coalition on 22 June 2001

See also