Curriculum vitae

Personal Information
Name: SOLOMON ENGDA ALEMU
Address: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Phone: +251922351783
E mail: solomonengda@gmail.com
solomonengda@mail.com
Sex: Male
Date of birth: 13/09/1972
Nationality: Ethiopian
Place of Birth: (Ethiopia)

Work Experience

Date Occupation or position held

8 Feb 2017 to Present-------------------Director General, Legal Affairs, Office of the

Prime Minister, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Main Activities and Responsibilities

The Director General is the primary person responsible for managing all legal issues that
are brought to the office of the prime minister. Working closely with the management
team, ministries and other partners, the Director General manages draft legislations,
regulations, and directives and provides legal opinion on other legal issues brought to the
attention of the Prime minister, deputy prime minister and council of ministers.
Standardize and redraft as it is required, all policy and strategy documents initiated by
respective ministries before they are tabled to the council of ministers
Takes lead in identifying and addressing potential legal issues and risks for current
activities, operations and strategic initiatives. Supervises Legal Affairs staff and oversee a
department.

9 January 2016 to 7 Feb 2017----------------------------Director, Legal Affairs

Directorate at the Prime Minister’s office, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

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 Main Activities and Responsibilities

Lead and manage the legal affairs directorate, Provide legal opinion to the Prime
Minister, The deputy Prime minister, Cabinet Minister, Prime minister’s office head
minister, Council of Ministers,
Draft proclamations, regulations, etc

10, Dec 2014-8 January 2016------------------------------Deputy Director, Legal affairs

Directorate at the Prime minister’s office, Federal democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Main Activities and Responsibilities

Provide legal opinion to the Prime Minister, The deputy Prime minister, Cabinet
Minister, Prime minister’s office head minister, Council of Ministers, draft
proclamations, regulations, etc

Jan 2007-9 December/2014-------------------Judge at the Federal High Court, Ethiopia

Main activities and responsibilities
Interpret the law, assess the evidence, and control how hearings and trails unfold in the
court rooms;
Resolve civil(cases among others including issues on contractual agreements, Issues on
Agency, Extra contractual liability , Commercial law, taxation issues ,etc) criminal and
labor cases ,handle other court activities;
Manage the court room and the support staff.

May 2008-Oct/2010------------Head, National Court Reform Office, Ethiopia

Main activities and responsibilities
Plan financial, technical and human resource of the office;
Spearhead the implementation of the plans of the office;
Monitor, Supervise and follow up all the activities carried out by the office; Report the
performance of the plan to the concerned Government Offices such as Office of Ministry
of Capacity Building-Ministry of Civil Service, Office of the Supreme Court,

June 2004-10 Oct /20121----------Head, Coordinator and Trainer of Special and In-
service Trainings at Federal Justice Professionals Training
Center, Ethiopia
Main Activities and Responsibility
Ensure the smooth and effective functioning of training events and special projects;

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. still Trainer at the Federal Justice Professionals Training
Center, Ethiopia

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Plan, Design and Coordinate Training Programs and coordinate with clients on event
details;
Networking and promoting spite firing as appropriate in the context of trainings and
conferences; Tracking, coaching technical assistance requests and activities for each
training program;
Provide leadership and work with assigned departmental administrative staff to create
and retain a high performance, customer service oriented work environment in alignment
with the training centers vision, mission, core values and guiding principles;
Summarize evaluation reports for trainings and provide the outcomes to the training
institute director.
Responsibility as a Trainer
Provide trainings for judges, public prosecutors , police officers ,Government lawyers,
Defense lawyers, Advocates on various disciplines such as constitutional law
,Federalism, media law, Law of contracts, Law of Insurance, Commercial law, Tax laws,
Law of Agency, Labor Law, Trafficking in persons, Law of evidence, Family law, Real
Time dispatch technique, court management, Customer service in courts, Environmental
law, code of conduct for lawyers, law of criminal procedure, principles of court reform,
court records management, training needs assessment for judges training, etc
June 2004-Aug/1998--------------Presiding Judge at the regional Supreme Court (Benishangul
–Gumuz Regional state)
Main activities and Responsibilities
Ensure the effective Management and administration of the court consistent with any
rules, policies, strategic plan, or budget;
Plan the activities of the court related judicial activities;
Ensure that the duties of all judges are timely and orderly performed;
Preside on the bench; Carry out all judicial activities such as hearing, writing judgments,
rendering judgments, etc

Work Experience in International Organizations

 Worked with International electoral Reform Services(IERS) in 2004 in Ethiopia.
Worked as part time expert in Ethiopian Electoral Board Office .
 worked with International Labor Organization (ILO) as external collaborator to
deliver trainings, to facilitate organization of workshops through liaising with the
national counter parts, write on reports, etc from 7-10 Dec 2010, 22-27 Mar
2011, 14-17 Mar 2011, and 19-22 Oct 2009.
 Organized and provided trainings on environmental law in collaboration with
United Nations Environment Program(UNEP) in 2006
Education and Training
Aug/2000-July 2002---------Master of Laws from university law college, Bangalore, India
(LL.M)
Principal subjects studied
Constitutional law (written an essay on Ethiopian constitution , specifically on the right
of self determination up to secession), Media law, Advanced Jurisprudence, Human
rights law, Research methodology, Social transformation, Law and economics and etc

1995-1998---------------------Bachelor of laws from Ethiopian Civil Service University

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 General subjects studied
Among others include: English (Spoken, Grammar, sophomore), Law of persons,
property law, commercial law, labor law, law of evidence, Law of Contracts, Law of
Business Organizations, Penal law, Law of Extra contractual liability, Law of Succession,
procedural laws (civil and penal), Constitutional law, etc.
My essay written for the partial fulfillment of LL.M focuses on constitutional principles
enshrined under the FDRE constitution, mainly the principle of self determination.

Trainings attended among others include:-

1) From 04 August 2019-16 August 2019,Biosafety and bio technology

regulation, policy and research, Michigan state University, USA
2) From 25 November -15 December 2018, Intellectual property right,
Stockholm, Sweden
3) From 20 December 2016-1 January 2017, project management,
Dubai, UAE
4) From 20 June to 15 July 2016,Legislative Drafting, University of
London, U.K
5) From 23 May to 27 May 2016,Mainstreaming Migration in Policy
Planning, International training center of ILO, Turin Italy
6) From October 16 to November 29/2017,General course on intellectual
property, WIPO Academy
7) From 28 SEPTEMBER-2 OCOBER 2015, INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION LAW,SANREMO,ITALY ;
8) From 16-27 Apr/2007,Turin,Italy-----A course entitled on
“International labor standards and equality in employment, with a
focus on gender issues and equal remuneration, tools and practice
“by International training center for ILO;
9) From 25-26 Oct/2005-----a course entitled on “Responsible leadership”
by Point man Leadership Institute;
10) 13 Aug/2004,Addis Ababa-----a course entitled on “Principle based
leadership: the importance of ethics” by Point man leadership Institute ,
11) 18-22 July 2011 a course on Drug trafficking and International
Organized crime cases by The United Nations Office on drugs and crime
in collaboration with the UK Crown prosecution Service,

Personal skills
Language skills

Other languages--------listening-----Reading------Speaking-----Writing
Amharic---------------proficient----- proficient—proficient--- proficient
English--------------- Excellent----- Excellent---excellent ---Excellent
Communication Skills

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Very good communication skills gained through my experience as trainer and judge;
excellent contact skills with trainees, clients gained through my experience as trainer and
Training program coordinator.
Organizational/Managerial skills
Leadership- responsible for a team of 27 people; Good organizational skills gained as
training program coordinator, responsible for booking or selecting trainers, facilitators or
panelists’ and conducting training; Good team leading skill gained as Presiding Judge,
Head, National Court Reform Office, Training programs coordinator
Job related skills
Monitoring skills-As a senior Judge trainer, I was responsible for training and induction
of law assists and training program staff
Computer skills
Good Command of office suit (word processor, spread sheet, presentation software’s, etc)
Driving license
-Second level
References

1. H.E Ato Alemayehu Tegenu, former Minister(FDRE), Addis Ababa

,Ethiopia
2. Ato Endashaw Adane, Senior judge ,Federal Supreme court(Cassation
Bench),phone +251911103851,Adiss Ababa, Ethiopia