Solomon Hassen Tegegne has joined the Regional Office for MENA as a Regional Reporting Officer with the RDH team as of 1 August 2025. Solomon joined the IOM Special Liaison Office (SLO Addis) to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in August 2020. Over the last five years, he has contributed to the formulation of policies and programs that support AU Member States. This included developing and coordinating continental projects with a thematic focus on labour mobility, private sector engagement, and protection. He has also promoted and managed effective inter-agency cooperation, partnership, and policy engagement. For instance, he drafted and coordinated technical inputs for the IOM-AU Cooperation Agreement and the three-year joint implementation plan (2022-2025).  As the coordinator and project manager for the Africa Migration Report, which is the flagship joint initiative of IOM-AU, he led the conceptualisation, writing, and editing of the different chapters of the second edition of the report that serves as a source of data and evidence for policymakers and researchers in Africa ( with over 7000 downloads of AMRII at the IOM Publication website. Furthermore, He spearheaded the conceptualization and development of a multi-country project on diaspora as a potential agent for building resilience, funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Transition States Facility – TSF Pillar III. From 2023-2025, he served as a project manager for this multi-country project: Streamlining Diaspora Engagement to Catalyze Private Investments and Entrepreneurship for Enhanced Resilience, implemented in eight countries in Africa: The Gambia, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Togo, and Zimbabwe.   Solomon has also been the focal person for the IOM technical focal point for the UN-AU-EU Tripartite Taskforce for stranded migrants and refugees in Libya. In this role, he provided technical support to revitalise the task force, which included revising its ToR with a new scope and developing a roadmap. Furthermore, in collaboration with the IOM Global Missing Migrants project (MMP) team in Berlin and the ICRC and AU colleagues, he supported policy work aimed at developing a continental guideline on the situation of missing migrants in Africa. Before joining IOM, he worked with the Danish Refugee Council as a Program coordinator (2019-2020). Between 2011 and 2019, he worked as a program coordinator for joint international MA and PhD programs run by the Addis Ababa University and the University of Leipzig in Germany.  He also worked with OXFAM International as, policy officer, and the Intergovernmental Agency for Development for East Africa (IGAD) as an intern.

Solomon holds a PhD from the University of Leipzig in Global Studies with a Special Emphasis on Peace and Security in Africa. He also has a joint master’s degree in Peace and Security Studies from the UN-mandated University for Peace and Addis Ababa University. He is also multilingual and speaks fluent French, among others.