Ethiopia's development is mostly people driven - Interview: Haddis Tadesse, Representative of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Ethiopia and to the Africa Union

In February 2012 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the appointment of Haddis Tadesse, a US national of Ethiopian descent, as its representative to Ethiopia and to the African Union. It was the Foundation’s first-ever representative to an African country. Recently, Africa Renewal’s Masimba Tafirenyika spoke with Mr. Tadesse in his office in the capital Addis Ababa about the reasons driving Ethiopia’s economic growth.