Bersabeh Beyene, Managing Partner at LINC and Founder of Acacia Global Consulting, is an international relief and development professional with more than twenty years of experience designing, managing, and providing technical assistance to donor-funded programs in Ethiopia and across Africa. Her expertise spans resilience, food security, market systems, access to finance, gender, research, monitoring, and evaluation. She is an expert trainer with exceptional skills facilitating adult learning processes.
Based in Addis Ababa, Bersabeh currently serves as Project Director for the Gates Foundation-funded MLE Anchor Project, a multi-year learning platform providing technical assistance, support, and coordination to implementers of Gates-funded programming in Ethiopia. Prior to this, Ms. Beyene served as Chief of Party of the Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) in Ethiopia.
Over the course of fourteen years prior to founding Acacia and joining LINC, Ms. Beyene was based in the United States and served in senior management and advisory roles at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and International Rescue Committee (IRC) supporting and overseeing programming in economic development, access to finance, gender, food security, and nutrition. In these roles she gained invaluable experience managing staff, supporting and coordinating with a range of government, NGO, and private sector stakeholders in multiple countries throughout Africa, while honing her skills in learning and facilitation.
Bersabeh holds a BA from San Jose State University and an MS from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She is fluent in English, Amharic, and French.