Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye
Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Born	Yohannes Haile Selassie (1961-02-23) 23 February 1961 (age 63)[1] Adigrat, Tigray Province, Ethiopian Empire
Nationality	Ethiopian
Alma mater	Addis Ababa University (B.A., 1982) University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1995) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 2001)
Known for	Paleontology Archaeology
Scientific career
Fields	Archeology
Institutions	Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Museum of Natural History National Museum of Ethiopia Mekelle University Addis Ababa University
Thesis	Late Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Tim D. White

Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye (born 23 February 1961) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist. An authority on pre-Homo sapiens hominids, he particularly focuses his attention on the East African Rift and Middle Awash valleys.^[2] He was curator of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from 2002 until 2021, and now is serving as the director of the Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins. Since founding the institute in 1981, he has been the third director after Donald Johanson and William Kimbel.^[3]