Haile Woldense

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**Haile Woldense**
1st Minister of Finance and Development
In office
1993 – 1997
Succeeded by	Ghebreselassie Yoseph
4th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1997 – 2000
Preceded by	Petros Solomon
Succeeded by	Ali Said Abdella
3rd Minister of Trade & Industry
In office
2000 – 2001
Preceded by	Ali Said Abdella
Succeeded by	Gergis Teklemichael
Born	1946 Maekel
Political party	PFDJ

Haile Woldense is an Eritrean politician.

Woldense attended High School in Asmara, Eritrea. After graduation he was accepted to the Addis Ababa University engineering program. There he met Isaias Afewerki and they withdrew from school to join the Eritrean Liberation Front.^[1]

In 1974 he became a member of what would become the Eritrea People's Liberation Front (EPLF) Central Committee and joined the Political Bureau.

After Independence he became the Minister of Finance and Development and served there until the Eritrean-Ethiopian War when he was shuffled in the Cabinet to the Minister of Foreign Affairs position. As a member of the G-15, who requested the resignation of the President of Eritrea to end the war with Ethiopia, he was arrested and replaced in his position.

Picture of Woldense to the right of picture