Mr. Hulluf Weldesilassie Kahsay serves as the Peace Process Support Advisor at Inclusive Peace. In this capacity, he delivers strategic, context-aware guidance to the Peace Process Support, utilizing his professional networks to bolster the organization’s initiatives in collaboration with partners in Ethiopia through collaborative and adaptive peace process-related efforts. A core aspect of his expertise involves magnifying the contributions of civil society and faith-based organizations in peace processes with conflict and trauma sensitivities.

His professional background includes: currently Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the African Union with the African Council of Religious Leaders-Religions for Peace (ACRL-RfP), Board Member and Regional Director for East Africa with the Canadian Foundation for Refugee Education (CFRE), a tenure as Senior Program Manager at the Peace and Development Centre (PDC), which is currently known as the Ethiopian Institute of Peace (EIP). Mr. Hulluf also held the position of Deputy Secretary General for the Inter-Religious Council of Ethiopia (IRCE), a role that allowed him to gain extensive experience in formulating peace strategies and mediating dialogues between different ethnic and religious communities across the country. Additionally, his time as the head of the Operations Department at the Adigrat Diocesan Catholic Secretariat (ADCS) provided him with robust administrative and strategic management skills.

Originally from the Irob district in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Mr. Hulluf’s academic credentials include an MA in Counseling Psychology from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi, Kenya. He also obtained BA and an MA in Social Ministry (specializing in Management) from the Tangaza University College, Nairobi, Kenya. He is currently a PhD candidate in Peace Studies at CUEA in Nairobi, where he is working on his doctoral thesis. He is also a member of a network of religious and traditional insider mediators in the Horn of Africa. He is fluent in Saho, Tigrigna, Amharic, and English, and possesses a working understanding of the Afar language.