Belete Molla (PhD) is a cabinet member and Minister of Innovation and Technology of Ethiopia from October 2021 to date. He is staff member of the Department of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University where he obtained his BA and his PhD, currently on leave. He is also a graduate of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) where he studied his MA in Applied Ethics in 2008/2009 under the Erasmus Mundus mobility scheme sponsored by the European Commission.