Hagos Abrha Abay

Dr Hagos Abrha Abay is currently a CEO & Founder of Gumaye Foundation, Ethiopian non-profit organization. As Ge'ez philologist he had served as an Ass. professor at Mekelle University (Tigray, Ethiopia); he was the founder and director of St Yared Center for Ethiopian Philology and Manuscript Studies (Mekelle University). He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Hamburg, Center for the Study of Manuscript Culture (CSMC), under 'Cluster of Excellence'. Currently he was a project manager of "Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts" project at the University of Toronto until June 2025, at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, and teaches linguistics at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilization, and Research Associate on the "Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book" project at Mississauga. Currently, he is PI of cataloguing Ethiopian cultural heritage at the Library of Congress (USA). He is also chair of "Tigray Peace Initiatives", a new community based peacebuilding initiative.
Countries of work experience:
Ethiopia
Germany
Canada
USA