My name is Aytenew Endeshaw Tatek, currently working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands as Policy officer Water and Climate at the embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With my current role, I develop project ideas and assess project proposals related to water, climate and FNS for possible funding through our ODA budget. My ultimate goal is to play a vital role in poverty reduction and achieving sustainable development goal in Ethiopia.

 Now I am a PhD candidate at Wageningen University and Resurch through the project 'Governing synergies and trade-offs with SDG15 in Ethiopia: a local-to-global study of landscape restoration in Lake Tana sub-basin'

I am married and a father of three girls.

Governing synergies and trade-offs with SDG15 in Ethiopia: a local-to-global study of landscape restoration in Lake Tana sub-basin

MSc. in Water Resource Management, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

Six months training on advanced research in Land Restoration and Sustainable Land Management (LR-SLM) organized by United Nations University, Land Restoration Training Program (UNU-LRT), Reykjavik, Iceland

BSc. in Land Resource Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia