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Sahle-Work Zewde

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Sahle-Work Zewde (Amharic: ሣህለ ወርቅ ዘውዴ; born 21 February 1950) is an Ethiopian diplomat who served as president of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2024, the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as 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 93rd most powerful woman in the world, making her the highest-ranking African woman on the list. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sahle-Work Zewde is the 1,297th most popular politician (up from 4,510th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ethiopia (up from 12th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ethiopian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 1,297 out of 19,576. Before her are Lysimachus, Aurelia Cotta, H. D. Deve Gowda, Alaeddin Pasha, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Aristide Briand. After her are Tony Blair, Decebalus, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Frederick VIII of Denmark, Edward the Elder, and Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 12. Before her are Georg Bednorz, Sergey Lavrov, Abdullah Gül, Tom Petty, Jay Leno, and Vicente del Bosque. After her are Stevie Wonder, Jim Mattis, Goran Bregović, Steve Wozniak, Gilles Villeneuve, and Ed Harris.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 5 out of 105. Before her are Haile Selassie (1892), Menelik II (1844), Zewditu (1876), and Abebe Bikila (1932). After her are Menelik I (-954), Yohannes IV (1837), Abraha (600), Tewodros II (1818), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Ezana of Axum (325), and Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde ranks 4. Before her are Haile Selassie (1892), Menelik II (1844), and Zewditu (1876). After her are Menelik I (-954), Yohannes IV (1837), Tewodros II (1818), Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937), Ezana of Axum (325), Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia (1895), Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (1506), and Abiy Ahmed (1976).

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