Timket A. Biresaw

Timket Biresaw is Lifeline’s Uganda Country Director, joining our team in November 2014 with over 10 years of international finance and program management experience. Highly respected in the development sector, Timket offers solid leadership abilities and vast knowledge in budget preparations, systems of internal controls, donor relations and program management. Prior to this role, Timket was Lifeline’s Deputy Country Director in Uganda. Timket served as Country Director for Medical Emergency Relief International (“MERLIN”) in the Darfur region of Sudan before joining Lifeline. He is a Certified Accountant with a professional membership from the UK-based Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (“ACCA”). He received his MBA from University of Wales, a B.A. in Accounting from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and his B.S. in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brooks University in the United Kingdom.