Tagesse Chafo

Tagesse Chafo
Tagesse Chafo
ታገሰ ጫፎ
	Tagesse in 2019
Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 18 October 2018
Deputy	Lomi Bedo
Preceded by	Muferiat Kamil
Minister for Public Service and Human Resource Development
	In office; October 2017 – 15 October 2018
Succeeded by	Fekadu Tesema
Personal details
Born	SNNPR, Ethiopia
Party	Prosperity Party
Other political; affiliations	Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front ; Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement

Succeeded byFekadu Tesema

Born

SNNPR, Ethiopia

Tagesse Chafo (Amharic: ታገሰ ጫፎ) is an Ethiopian politician and current Speaker of the House of Peoples Representatives since 2018. He was elected as speaker on 18 October 2018 succeeding Muferiat Kamil who became the Minister of Peace.^[1]^[2] He was re-elected as the Speaker of the House of Peoples' Representatives on 4 October 2021.^[3]

Prior to becoming Speaker, Tagesse was the Minister for Public Service and Human Resource Development from 2017 to 2018.^[4]

Positions	Date served
Head of District level department of agriculture	February 1994 – August 1997
Head of Province level department of Trade, Industry and Urban Development	December 2002 – September 2005
Head of Investment Commission of SNNP (Southern Nations Nationalities & Peoples') Regional State	October 2005 – November 2006
Head of Bureau of Works and Urban Development SNNP Regional State	December 2006 – April 2008
Vice President of SNNP Regional State and head of Trade & Industry Bureau	May 2008 – December 2012
Vice President of SNNP Regional State and head of Civil Service Bureau	January 2013 – December 2004
State Minister FDRE Policy Study & Research Center	January 2015 – October 2017
Minister for Public Service and Human Resource Development	October 2017 – 15 October 2018
Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representatives	18 October 2018 – present

List of administrative positions