Draft:Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie

Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie (born in 1968) is a German political scientist. She currently serves as the CEO of the Ethiopian and German social company Ecological Products of Ethiopia (ECOPIA).

Life and career
Mitslal was born in Ethiopia in 1968. After moving to Germany, she received her Ph.D. in International Relations degree in 2006 from the University of Erfurt, Germany. She began her career with Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in Belgium. She served as a researcher at Harvard Sussex Program untill 1997 working on Chemical and Biological Weapons Armament and Arms Limitation program.

In 2006, She founded Ecological Products of Ethiopia (ECOPIA), a social for-profit company in Ethiopia. It creates value chains for organic foods, herbal medicines, and natural cosmetics distributed in Ethiopia, East Africa, and Western Europe.