Melaku Geboye Desta is professor of international economic law at Leicester De Montfort Law School in England (since 2013), currently on leave working for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) as principal regional advisor in regional integration and trade. He is a lawyer by training and holds a PhD in international economic law. Melaku has published widely in the fields of international economic law and policy, with a particular focus on the interests of developing countries in general and those in Africa in particular. Melaku is a founding coeditor of the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law (EtYIL), which has been published annually since 2016.

Dereje Feyissa Dori holds a PhD in social anthropology from Martin Luther University. He has been a research fellow of Osaka University, the Max Planck Institute, and the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt.” Currently he is a research and policy advisor to the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. Dereje has extensive experience in research on a wide range of topics, such as ethnicity and conflict, religion and politics, the political economy of development, and borderland studies. He is the author and coeditor of several books, as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

Mamo Esmelealem Mihretu is a senior adviser on policy reforms to the prime minister of Ethiopia and Ethiopia’s chief trade negotiator. Prior to taking his post in 2018, Mamo was a senior project manager at the World Bank Group from 2010 to 2018 and has more than sixteen years of experience in economic policy reforms. His past roles include lecturer at Addis Ababa University and other Ethiopian academic institutions. Mamo studied leadership, public administration, and economic development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Additionally, he completed his postgraduate studies in law at the Universities of Pretoria and Amsterdam.

CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Clapham, Semir Yusuf, Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam, Sehin Teferra, Camille Louise Pellerin, William Davison, Solomon Dersso, Charles Schaefer, Lars Christian Moller, Berhanu Abegaz, Tom Lavers, Kenichi Ohno, Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, Yonatan T. Fessha, Nigussie Angessa, Abubeker Yasin, Ann M. Fitz-Gerald, Senai Woldeab, Awet T. Weldemichael, and Abdeta Dribssa Beyene.