Professor Belay Tefera Kibret is a highly regarded professor of psychology who has had a long and influential career as a lecturer, doctoral dissertation advisor, and external reviewer of programs in different universities across Ethiopia. Based at Addis Ababa University, he works on a wide range of topics and projects that focus on life span development, family studies, early childhood education, youth development and support, and program development and evaluation.
Professor Kibret served as the president of the Ethiopian Psychologists’ Association, and was Associate Dean of the former College of Education of Addis Ababa University, as well as founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Journal of Behavioral Studies.
He is an international advisory and editorial board member of different international and local journals. He also played a key role in collaborative efforts aimed at developing different postgraduate and doctoral programs, as well as national and institutional strategic and policy documents.
Professor Kibret holds a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology (Measurement and Evaluation) from Addis Ababa University, and a PhD in Psychology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
