Damtew Teferra

Damtew Teferra is currently Director for Africa and the Middle East at the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program, based at the Institute of International Education in New York. Until recently, he was Associate Research Professor of Higher Education at the Center for International Higher Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College. Teferra is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Higher Education in Africa and the Founder and Director of the International Network for Higher Education in Africa. Dr. Teferra is the Senior Editor of the Conover-Porter Award-winning book, African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook (Indiana University Press, 2003).