Tewolde Berhan
Gebre Egziabher
(1940-)

Ethiopian Scientist, Anti-Globalization Advocate
2000 Right Livelihood Award Winner
World Future Council

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birthplace: Ethiopia

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Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher is an Ethiopian scientist and Director General of the Ethiopian Ministry of the Environment. In the 1990s he was a leading advocate for the progressive stand to stop the patenting of living material in favor of community rights at many international biodiversity forums held by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and for the Convention on Biological Diversity. In 2000 he received the Right Livelihood Award (often referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prize) "for his exemplary work to safeguard biodiversity and the traditional rights of farmers and communities to their genetic resources." In 2006, Tewolde Berhan was also one of the winners of the United Nations top environmental prize, Champions of the Earth.