Mehari Maru

Dr Mehari Taddele Maru is currently Academic Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Programme at the School of Transnational Governance, and Part-time Professor Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is also a senior expert at Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration. Prof Mehari is also a Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities, Prof Mehari holds a DLS/PhD in Legal Sciences from JL Giessen University, Germany, an MPA from Harvard, an MSc from the University of Oxford and an LLB from Addis Ababa University.  

With more than 20 years of management and professional working experience in multilateral bodies, he combines research excellence with a deep knowledge of multilateral systems.