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Hirpo Gudeta

Hirpo is a water resource engineer who has been working with the Ministry of Water
and Energy, Ethiopia, for more than 10 years. He obtained a Ph.D. from Africa Center of
Excellence for Water Management, Addis Ababa University, and an MSc in Water
Resource Engineering and Management from Hawassa University, Ethiopia. He serves
as a senior water resource engineer in the boundary and transboundary river lead
executive office, Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopia, currently providing hydrology
and water resources management plan, design, and advisory services mainly in the
Nile River Basin with overall responsibility for ensuring sustainability, efficient and
equitable use, and protection of both at the national and regional level of
transboundary river basins. He has gained multiple experiences in river training and
flood protection, developing strategic river basin plans, specifically flood and drought
strategic plans. He also served at the Basin High Council Secretariat office as a senior
water resource manager.

As part of all those mandates discharged to him, he provided his knowledge and
experience on river engineering and flood protection, strategic river basin planning,
coordination, and advocacy, including gender transformation and women’s
empowerment in the water resource engineering and management. He is committed
to playing a crucial role in transforming the transboundary water sector into a more
inclusive and equitable space for women.

Women’s full engagement and beyond that
ensures the sustainability, equity, and efficient use
of transboundary water resources, and as male
champion, I will devotedly work on that.

Senior water resource engineer
Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopia