Background
Beyene was born in Hadiya, Ethiopia.
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Beyene Petros
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He attended elementary and high school at local schools in southern Ethiopia. He received his Bachelor of Science from Addis Ababa University, Mississippi from University of Wisconsin and Doctor of Philosophy from Tulane University all in Biology.
Career
Beyene joined the staff of Addis Ababa University in 1979 when he became a Lecturer. Later he became a Professor of Biology in 2009. He was then appointed deputy minister of Education but later resigned from government.
He has been a major opposition political figure since 1995.
Beyene was first elected to the parliament in the May 2000 elections. In the 2003 parliament, he served as chairman for the combined Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy in Ethiopia, the Southern Ethiopia Peoples" Democratic Coalition, and the Hadiya National Democratic Organization.
He by now is serving as chairman for Ethiopian Federal Democratic Forum (Medrek).
Politics
He is currently the chairman of one of the largest opposition political parties in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Forum Medrek. Beyene join politics in 1991 when the ruling EPRDF took power. When parties joined to form the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) in 2004, Professor
Beyene became the chairman of the UEDF.
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