Mastewal (Mastish) Taddese Terefe
Ethiopia
Public Policy (MPP), 2016
Oriel College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus
Mastewal Taddese Terefe (Mastish) is a researcher and advocate on rule of law and governance. During 2018-2019, Mastish provided legal research and drafting support to the newly established Law and Justice Affairs Advisory Council (LJAAC) Secretariat, at the Federal Attorney General’s Office in Addis Ababa. Prior to that, she completed several policies and legal internships with a variety of organizations worldwide including the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the World Bank Group. Mastish is currently a Law Clerk for Thompson and Skrabanek, PLLC, New York, USA.
Her policy training and practice have also instilled in her a passion for evidence-based restructuring of Ethiopia’s education and migration policies. Her ethnographic research on Ethiopian domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates, part of her undergraduate degree, has earned her a departmental award for excellence. In 2013, she co-founded Qine Association for Promoting Education Quality, a youth initiative to improve the quality of secondary education in Ethiopia.
Mastish has a J.D. from New York University School of Law, a master’s degree in Public Policy from Oxford University which she completed in 2017, and a BA in Political Science and Social Research & Public Policy from NYU Abu Dhabi.
