Newbridge woman Nicola Brennan has just taken up a challenging new role, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, with her appointment as Irish ambassador to Ethiopia, with responsibility for South Sudan and Djibouti. Interested in pursuing a career in international development, she then completed a masters degree in development administration and management at the University of Manchester, before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1996. Most recently Nicola has served as the Department of Foreign Affairs’ director of international development policy in the development cooperation and Africa Division. In this role, she lead the Irish government’s new policy on international development, called A Better World, which outlines what this country commits to do on international development across the world. She was appointed as ambassador to Ethiopia last December, although her start in the job has been delayed several months by the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Ethiopian News September 13, 2020 06:56 UTC