Yonas Kebede

Mr. Yonas Kebede is a Senior Analyst at Access Capital SC.
He has both communications and financial markets experience, including 26 years’ experience in the USA. From 1992-1999 he was Asset Manager (Vice President) for Descartes Financial Corp, a Los Angeles-based company specializing in real-estate.
He worked as Research Associate and later Vice President (1985-1991) in the High-Yield Bond (“Junk Bond”) department of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. in Beverly Hills, where he monitored transactions for compliance with securities laws, reviewed trades, settlements and fund transfers, interpreted bond covenants and provisions, and created and maintained a database for Sinking Fund and Convertible Bonds.
He worked as Legal Researcher at the United Nations, New York (1979-1985) and as a Financial Aid Officer, later Administrator, at Seattle Opportunities Industrialization centre, a vocational community college.
Prior to joining Access Capital in 2006, he was producing reports and documents for UN agencies in Ethiopia and writing a column called “My Perspective” in Fortune newspaper.
Previously he was Editor-in-Chief of Capital newspaper, where he also produced his own column.
Other work experience since returning to Ethiopia includes one year as General Manager of Express International Group, General Services Agent for British Airways, and Executive Assistant to CEO of Wegagen Bank.
His educational background includes a Masters Degree in Comparative Jurisprudence (Howard University, Washington D.C) with internship at the United Nations and a Bachelor of Law Degree (Haile Selassie University, Addis Ababa).