Kiros Kidanu

Kiros Kidanu is the Deputy Director of the Policy and Planning Directorate at the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia. He has two years of experience coordinating the annual woreda planning exercise and supervising the preparation of the Medium-Term Public Investment and Medium-Term Expenditure Framework for the health sector in Ethiopia.  Kiros has experience reviewing budget proposals in coordination with the Ministry of Finance to ensure that the proposals get approved by the parliament. He has also consolidated monthly, quarterly and annual reports that are used for monitoring and evaluation of performance and for making evidence based decisions at all levels of the health sector. Additionally, he recently coordinated and led the preparation of the policy, planning and monitoring and evaluation core processes of the Business Process Reengineering.  Kiros holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is currently providing technical support and advice on health planning and implementation of the Balanced Scorecard for four hospitals and agencies at federal level.  In the future Kiros would like to continue his education in Health Economics. He would like to apply his educational background and work experience to improve health policy in Ethiopia by holding a key position and playing a leadership role at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development of Ethiopia.