Teshome Marra is a Rotary Peace Fellow of Makerere University Rotary center and a researcher, trainer, educator, and consultant in the field of peace, conflict, and security.
He holds an international joint MA in Global Studies with a special emphasis on peace and security in Africa from Leipzig University, Germany. He also holds an MA in Human Resources and Organizational Development in Education from Addis Ababa University. He also earns a postgraduate Diploma in Peacebuilding and conflict transformation from Makerere University, Uganda under the full scholarship program of the Rotary International Peace Fellowship program. He worked for more than 20 years in public, private, and NGOs in the areas of National dialogue, Electoral violence management, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and security analysis. Currently, he is perusing a Ph.D. in political science specializing in African studies with research focusing on the cross-border conflict in the Horn of Africa at the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and Science Po Bordeaux, France.