Mulatu Wubneh is a professor (Emeritus) of planning at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC., and Ambassador Distinguished Scholar at the Gondar University, Ethiopia. He is the author of several books and articles on planning, urbanization, infrastructure and development in Ethiopia. Wubneh has also served as director and department head of the planning program at East Carolina University (North Carolina); an adjunct faculty at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (Washington, D.C.); and as a program officer for the African Capacity Building Foundation (World Bank) responsible for projects in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana; and consultant at the World Bank, USAID, and the UNDP on African capacity building programs. In 2013 he served as a Fulbright Scholar at EIABC (School of Built Environment) at Addis Ababa University, and since 2018 he has been serving as an Ambassador Distinguished Scholar at the Gondar University.
