Zewditu Gebreyohanes: Senior Researcher
Zewditu Gebreyohanes is a Senior Researcher at the Legatum Institute and Deputy Editor of the digital publication History Reclaimed. She sits on the board of the Victoria & Albert Museum and on the jury of the Prix Pictet, an international photography award.
From May 2022 to November 2023 Zewditu was the Director of Restore Trust, the grassroots member-led campaign to return the National Trust to its founding aims and statutory and charitable objects. She was formerly Head of the History Matters Project at the think tank Policy Exchange, where her publications included Protecting local heritage: How to bring democracy to the renaming of streets and Politicising Plants: Does “decolonising” the botanical collections at Kew undermine its core mission?
Zewditu graduated from King’s College London in 2020 with a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Being half-Ethiopian, Zewditu is well-informed about the culture, history, politics and geography of the Horn of Africa. She is fluent in Amharic (the Ethiopian national language) and proficient in Tigrinya (the language of Tigray in northern Ethiopia, and the Eritrean national language).