Members of the Board of Trustees
Terms Ending September 2007	New Members (Terms 09/01 to 08/05)	Incumbent Members (Terms end 08/03)
Asrat Tessema Assefa Mehretu Ayalew Kanno Birhanu Getahun Daniel Teferra Paul Henze Sisay Asefa Sisay Tezera Teshome Wagaw Yitayih Zelalem	Carl Robson Hailu Abatena Harold Marcus Teshome Abebe Wongelawit Teferra Erku Yimer Fifi Hussein Teshome Taddesse	Asrat Tessema Ayalew Kanno Assefa Mehretu Daniel Teferra Sisay Asefa Teshome Wagaw

Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees
Chairperson:	Teshome Wagaw Professor of Education University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 E-mail: twagaw@umich.edu
Vice Chairperson:	Wongelawit Tefera Senior Associate Scientist Pfizer Corporation Ann Arbor, Michigan E-mail: wongelawit.tefera@pfizer.com
Treasurer:	Asrat Tessema Professor and Head Department of Finance Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197 E-mail: asrat.Tessema@emich.edu
Board Secretary:	Daniel Teferra Professor of Economics Ferris State University Big Rapids, Michigan 49307 E-mail: DTEFERRA@AOL.COM
Executive Director:	Sisay Asefa Professor of Economics Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008 E-mail: asefa@wmich.edu
Deputy Executive Director:	Ayalew Kanno Associate Faculty African Studies Program Michigan State University E-mail:  kannoa@pilot.msu.edu
Member of the Founding Board	Assefa Mehretu Professor of Geography Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48823 E-mail:  mehretu@msu.edu