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Hon.
Yusuf Abdullahi Sukkar
Commissioner
for Tourism, Republic of Ethiopia.
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 His
Excellency Yusuf Abdullali Sukkar has held the
distinguished position of Commissioner, Ethiopian
Tourism Commission, since 1997. He has received
many honors and awards for his distinguished career
in the Ethiopian Government and was recently
elected as a Member of the Board of Directors of
the Africa Travel Association. He attended Haile
Selassie University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and
graduated with a BA., as an Economics major with a
minor in Public Administration.
He later achieved an MA in Economics, specializing
in economic development and public finance from the
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is
presently the Board Chairman of the Development and
Hotel Company (Addis Ababa Hilton), Ghion Hotel
Enterprise and Wabi Shebelle Hotel
enterprise.
His major duties include: initiation of tourism
policies and laws, as well as the follow up of
their implementation; publicizing the country's
diverse resources of tourism attractions; and
encouraging the development of tourist facilities,
and setting standards for the same.
Prior
to his current position, he held several government
sector positions including General Manager of the
Office of Wages and Other Remuneration. In this
capacity he was directly responsible for the
elaboration of a national system of wages and
incentives fund, formulation and regulations for
the public sector of the economy; elaboration of a
system of job specifications, job evaluations, and
job classifications as well as the projection of
national wages scales. He focused on the
elaboration of systems of work organization, work
determinations and payment of results, with the
overall objective of producing a more equitable
distribution of income and enhancing economic
development.
He
served as the Head of the Mobilization of Financial
Resources Division and Acting Head of the Finance
and Budget Department of the Planning Commission
Office, head of the Budget Department in the
development through Cooperation Campaign, and was
an Associate Expert in the Department of
Development Programming of the Planning Commission
Office of the Ethiopian Government
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