Abiy Ahmed Ali is the 3th Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. He was first appointed to the position by the Ethiopian parliament on 2 April 2018. He was sworn in for a new five-year term in October 2021 following the June 2021 National election.

Abiy is the Chairman of Prosperity Party created in 2019 by merging the previous three coalition members and other affiliates parties of EPRDF into a unified national party. He has a PhD from the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University. He has also an MA in Business Administration from Lead Star College of Management and Leadership, and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Microlink Information Technology College. 

Abiy served in the Ethiopian Military in the 1990s to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 2007, he was appointed as the Director the Information Network Security Agency (INSA).  He then left INSA and secured a seat in the House of Peoples’ Representatives as a member of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO) in the 2010 national election. In early 2010s, he was appointed as the Minister of Science and Technology. In October 2016, he became the vice president of Oromia Regional State. In 2017, he was appointed as head of the secretariat of the OPDO. In February 2018, the OPDO appointed him as the Chair of the party that also led him to become the Chairman of EPRDF in March 2018. On April 2 2018, the EPRDF nominated him as the Prime Minister that was approved by the House of Peoples’ Representatives. Abiy received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2019 for his effort to resolve the long-running Ethio-Eritrean border dispute.