List of Presidents of Ethiopia

President of the
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

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Incumbent
Mulatu Teshome
since 7 October 2013
Residence National Palace, Addis Ababa
Term length 6 years
Inaugural holder Mengistu Haile Mariam
Formation 10 September 1987
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The following is a list of the Presidents of Ethiopia. It includes people who served as heads of state of Ethiopia since 1974.

Heads of State of Ethiopia (1974–Present)

No. Name
(birth–death)		 Picture Took office Left office Political party
Derg (Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia)
1 Aman Mikael Andom
(1924–1974) 		12 September 1974 17 November 1974[1] Military
— Mengistu Haile Mariam
(interim)
(1937– ) 		17 November 1974 28 November 1974 Military
2 Tafari Benti
(1921–1977) 		28 November 1974 3 February 1977[2] Military
3 Mengistu Haile Mariam
(1937– ) 		3 February 1977 10 September 1987 Military /
Workers' Party of Ethiopia
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
(3) Mengistu Haile Mariam
(1937– ) 		10 September 1987 21 May 1991[3] Workers' Party of Ethiopia
— Tesfaye Gebre Kidan
(acting)
(1935–2004) 		21 May 1991 28 May 1991 Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Transitional Government of Ethiopia
— Meles Zenawi
(interim)
(1955–2012) 		28 May 1991 22 August 1995 Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
4 Negasso Gidada
(1943– ) 		22 August 1995 8 October 2001 Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)[4]
5 Girma Wolde-Giorgis
(1924– ) 		8 October 2001 7 October 2013 Independent
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)
6 Mulatu Teshome
(1955/56– ) 		7 October 2013 Incumbent Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organization
(Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)

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Notes

  1. ↑ Deposed and assassinated
  2. ↑ Assassinated during a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Derg
  3. ↑ Fled the country at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War
  4. ↑ Expelled from both the OPDO and the EPRDF coalition on 22 June 2001

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