Zenebeworke Tadesse presently serves as a member and editor of the Management Committee of the
Forum for Social Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is also a member of the Board of the
African Gender Institute located at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a founding member of the
Association of African Women for Research and Development.
Ms. Tadesse is a former Deputy Director of the
Council for the Development of Social Sciences in Africa, she has worked extensively on issues of gender and social policy with various United Nations agencies as well as with development groups and non-governmental organizations throughout Africa.