Dr. Adera Abdela is a founder and Managing Director of SAK. Dr. Adera graduated with BA in Economics and completed his MA and Doctoral studies in Transformational Leadership with distinction from UK and USA respectively. Dr. Adera is an internationally certified Business and Leadership Advisor, trainer and management consultant with key expertise in areas of leadership, management, economics and organizational capacity building. He has led and advised various projects and managed several training and consultancy activities as team leader for different local and international organizations.
A graduate of Fergusson College with a B.A and M.A in economics and MPH from Haramaya University
and a doctoral candidate at BGU (USA). Leads two private healthcare facilities as CEO of Sr Aklesia
Memorial General Hospital and as Managing Director of Hema Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory, which
is the first ISO 15189 accredited privately-owned institution in Ethiopia. Currently, He serves as
President of the Ethiopian Employers’ Federation (EEF), 1st Vice President of the Confederation
of Ethiopian Employers’ Federation (CEEF). At a regional level, he assumes a position as
Secretary-General of the Confederation of IGAD Employers’ (CIE).
Furthermore, he is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in
the manufacturing, hospital & health care industry and Logistic sector. Skilled in Nonprofit
Organizations, Program Evaluation, Health Promotion, and Management. He has lectured for four years
at Addis Abeba University, trained entrepreneurship at different consultation institutes.