One of Joe Biden’s transition team members is Yohannes Abraham, who is leading the day-to-day operation of the transition team and who also served in Barack Obama’s White House for 8 years.
Abraham is one of the Obama
lifers who were totally committed to getting things done during the tenure of the
former president. In an interview with the Los
Angeles Times Valerie Jarrett, one of the most senior advisors of president
Obama said, “Abraham was illustrative of many of the early staff, passionate,
hard-working, without ego or agenda, determined to help recapture the true honour
of public service.”
Abraham’s bond with Obama
continued when the president left White House as Abraham served as Senior
Advisor at the Obama Foundation, helping
to set up the foundation and subsequently as the interim Chief Operating
Officer of the foundation. The Ethiopian American who spent 8 years in White
House West Wing has a very important role to play as he leads
the daily operation of Biden’s transition team.
Abraham a son of Ethiopian immigrants,
who was born and raised in Springfield, Virginia is a graduate of Yale College
and has been the Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy
School.
As Joe Biden said in his victory
speech, “America is a country of possibilities”. All that matters is the strive for success and the readiness to go
extra miles. Abraham has all it takes.
Ethiopia will be proud of
Abraham’s success. It’s more than important to have such an influential White
House staffer linked to Ethiopia, the cradle of mankind which is on course to
finalising its most important project – The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,
the building of which was threatened by the outgoing president. The future is
promising.
