Hanna Araya Selassie’s appointment as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) sustains what has been a meteoric rise within Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government institutions. The former head of Ethiopost took over the EIC on 22 January from Lelise Neme, who is now in charge of the Environmental Protection Authority (AI, 24/01/24).Both women are still in their early thirties and both have worked in Ethiopia’s industrial parks, of which