Haile Menkerios

Addis Ababa Univ 1965-66; BA in Econ form Brandeis univ (1971), MA in Dev Planning, Harvard Univ (71); Doctoral studies, Harvard (71-73); Joined Eritrean independence struggle (1974-91); got married to another liberation fighter (1979); Eritrean Ambassador to Ethiopia, Special Envoy to Somalia, then Congo (91-97); Permanent Rep of Eritrea to the UN (97-2000); Joined UN as Int staff 2001, and still working there currently as Assistant Secretary General responsible for peace and security in Africa and Security Council Affairs.

As an AFS exchange student, it was a year of learning new things in all areas for me - new family, new environment, new society, new school system (from British which emphasized memorizing to US which emphasized thinking- never had a clue about that algebra though!). I enjoyed the team closeness I developed in the track team.