Personal Profile

 Full Name: Embiale Beyene Admassu

 Nationality: Ethiopian by birth

 Current Academic Rank: Assistant Professor (PhD)

 Address: Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia,Pob.79;

Cell: +251-918709051; email:embialebeyene@yahoo.com or beyeneadmassu@gmail.com

 Updated on: January, 2025

1. Educational and Professional Summary

 PhD in Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, 2024.

 Master of Arts in International Relations, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2010.

 Higher Diploma in Teaching, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, 2008.

 Degree of Arts (BA in PSIR: Major in Political Science and International Relations and minor in Management), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 2003.

2. Work Experiences

 From August 20, 2006 to July16,2010 as GAI, GAII, and Assistant lecturer, Department of Civic and Ethical Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

 From July 16, to December 30, 2018,Lecture, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

 Science January 2019, Assistant professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

3. Positions and Committee works

3.1.Positions

 Since March 8, 2024, Director, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Research Center, Bahir DarUniversity, Ethiopia

 From July 28, 2015 to April 22, 2019, Academic Affairs Executive Director of Bahir DarUniversity, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

 From August 14, 2013 to July 28, 2015, Dean of Social Science Faculty, Bahir Dar University,Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

 From December 3, 2011 to August 14 , 2013, Vice Dean of Social Science Faculty, Bahir DarUniversity, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

 From October9, 2010 to December 3, 2011, Civic and Ethical Studies Department head, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

3.2. Committee

 Member of Bahir Dar University e-Learning enforcement guideline development committee, since September 2024.

 Member of Bahir Dar University Restructuring Committee, 13 December 2021 to 1June 2024.

 Chairperson and member of Bahir Dar University Procurement Endorsing Committee for more

than five years (From September 2014 to December 2019)

 Chairperson and active participant of Bahir Dar University Senate Legislation revising committee

Chairperson of Curriculum Standards and Approval Committee of Bahir Dar University for

three years and eight months

 Member of staff affairs, appointment, and promotion committee of Bahir Dar University for

three years and eight months

 Member and chairperson of various discipline, quality assurance, office allocation and leadership

electoral committee of Bahir Dar University

 Chairperson of Leadership selection guideline preparation committee

 Member of Academic Affairs Vice president office five years strategic plan preparation

committee

 Chairperson of Bahir Dar University community service delivery assessment and evaluating committee

4. Areas of Research Interests

 Water Governance and Geopolitics in Eastern Nile Basin,

 Water Diplomacy, Water Security,

 National, Regional and Continental Integrations, African Focus

 State-Society Relations, Nation and state building, African Focus

 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Ethiopian Focus

5. Editorial activities

Guest-Editor (August 2023) for JOURNAL OF SOMALI STUDIES: Research on Somalia and

the Greater Horn of African Countries

6. Awards

 Erasmus Mobility Program Award (15 April to 15 June, 2023), School of Santana, Pisa, Italy

 Best Dean Award, Bahir Dar University, 2014

7. Training Provided

 Diversity management and Peace building in Ethiopia

 Leadership for conflict transformation

 Ethical and Servant leadership for fighting corruption

8. Course thought

 Hydro politics of the Nile: Conflict and cooperation dynamics

 Environment and Sustainable Development

 Integrated Water Resources Management

 Water Resources Governance

 Theories of International Relations

 Foreign policy and Diplomacy

 International relations of Africa

 Survey of Socio-Political Systems of Africa

 Democracy and Human rights

 Comparative Politics and Government

 Public Policy and Decision Making

 Environmental Politics and Transboundary Resources

9. Unpublished Documents

Embiale Beyene (2024). Water Governance and Geopolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin: the Nile

Basin Initiative and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PhD dissertation, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar.

Embiale Beyene (2010). Abbay/Blue Nile River Basin: Environmental Issues in Trans-boundary

Water Resources Management. MA Thesis, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa.

Embiale Beyene (2003). Electoral Politics in Ethiopia: the Case of May 2000 National Election.

Senior Essay, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa.

10. Publication

• Embiale Beyene and Yayehu Chekol (2024). Analyzing Post-Colonial Impacts of External

Interventions on Africa’s National and Regional Integration. Political Science Magazine, 62(1),192-208.

• Embiale Beyene (2024). Unveiling the power play: Exploring the intricacies of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’s negotiations and their impact on the security of the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, 10(1), 43-68.
• Embiale Beyene (2023). The struggle between Nile water colonization and decolonization: Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). African Renaissance, 20(2), 13-30.
• Embiale Beyene (2023). Securitization of Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA) and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD): Dialectical Positions between Upstream and Downstream Riparian Countries. Journal of African Union Studies, 12(1), 5-21.
• Embiale Beyene (2023). Negotiations over the Cooperative Framework Agreement and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Echo-Dialogue and the Dialogue of the Deaf. Journalof Somali Studies, 10(1), 45-62.
• Embiale Beyene and Chekol, Y. G. (2022). Colonial Intervention and its Ramifications on African Contemporary Integration and Solidarity. Journal of Somali Studies, 9(3), 95-112. 
• Mohamed Seid and Embiale Beyene (2021).The Politics of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD): an Ethiopian Perspective, 7July Accord
• Embiale Beyene (2020). External Interventions and State Fragility, Failure and Collapse:Comparative Analysis of African Experiences. International Affairs and Global Strategy, 88,13-25.
• Embiale Beyene, Mohammed Seid and Aslam Khan(2018). The Dynamics of Ethiopia-Sudan Relations over the hydro-politics of Nile. Insight on Africa, 10 (2), 150-168.
• Embiale Beyene and Aslam Khan(2018). Water Scarcity and Integrated Water Resources Management in the Abbay River Basin of Ethiopia. World Focus, 38 (2), 33-44.
• Embiale Beyene and Mohammed Seid(2018). The Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam-Likelihood of Cooperation or Conflict between Ethiopia and Sudan. Journal of Ethiopian Social Sciences, 4 (1), 1-19.
• Embiale Beyene (2015). Pitfalls of Water Resources Development and Management in the Abbay Basin of Ethiopia. Proceeding of the Second National Conference of Social Sciences, Bahir Dar, April 16-17, pp:33-59
• Embiale Beyene (2010). Abbay/Blue Nile River Basin: Environmental Issues in Trans-boundary Water Resources Management. VDM Verlag Publisher.

11. Conference Presentations

• Embiale Beyene (2023). Imperatives of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD): An Ethiopian

Perspective. International Conference on “The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in International

and National Perspective, organized by International Center for the Horn of Africa, 30March, 2023.

• Embiale Beyene (2022). “Negotiations over the Cooperative Framework Agreement and the Grand Ethiopian Renascence Dam: Echo-Dialogue and the Dialogue of the Deaf” a paper presented at the 1st Abbay International Water Conference which was organized by the Blue Nile Water Institute, Bahir Dar University on the 16th and 17th of September 2022.
• Embiale Beyene and Mohammed Seid (2018). “ Existential Challenges and Prospects of Ethio-Egypt Relations over the Nile “A paper presented at the 5th Nile Symposium, May 5-6, Organized by BNWI, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
• Embiale Beyene and Mohammed Seid (2017). “ A Critical Assessment on the Dynamics of Previous and Existing Ethio-Sudan Relations on the hydro-politics of the Nile” A paper Presented at the 4th Nile Symposium, April 28-29, organized by BNWI, Bahir Dar University
• Embiale Beyene (2015). “Pitfalls of Water Resources Management and Development in the Abbay Basin of Ethiopia” Paper presented at the 2nd Social Science Conference, April 16-17, Organized by Social Science Faculty, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia.