Ermias Sahle-Selassie

Prince Ermias Sahle - Selassie Haile Selassie ( born June 14, 1960 in Addis Ababa ) is the President of the Ethiopian Crown Council ( Crown Council of Ethiopia ) and grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Life

Prince Ermias Sahle - Selassie was born in 1960 in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as the only son of Prince Sahle Selassie Haile Selassie Haile Selassie and grandchildren.

He went to school in Ethiopia and England and studied at the University of California (Santa Barbara ) Social Sciences and Business Administration. From 1983 to 1985 he attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie is committed to the consolidation of democracy in Africa and logs within the Ethiopian community in the United States on issues that affect the Horn of Africa, again and again to speak.

He was in 1983 appointed Chairman of the Ethiopian Crown Council, which has taken on the task to erect the imperial tradition again and is committed to a democratic rule of law in Ethiopia under a constitutional monarchy. He thus speaks as the representative of the imperial family and follows in this function Emperor Amha Selassie I. after, but the head of the Imperial House is Zere Yacobe Selassie.

Prince Ermias Sahle - Selassie maintained his ties to the U.S. Congress and European politicians, as he explained, for example, at a meeting in 2003 with the Vice - President of the Hungarian Parliament.

The Chairman of the Crown Council is fluent in Amharic, English and German. He is married and has two sons ( twins).