Nahu Senay Girma

Nahu Senay Girma is an Ethiopian women's rights activist. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Association of Women in Boldness (AWiB), a non-governmental organisation established in April 2010 to train women for leadership roles, and has established several charities.

Career Nahu Senay Girma was born in Mekelle. Her father, who died at the age of 34, gave her a traditionally masculine name which translates as "something good is happening now", because he was so pleased to have a daughter.

Girma works as a management consultant. She has two children who have both been educated at Harvard University. In March 2014 she was the moderator of a discussion with young people on women's role in leadership and development organised by the United Nations Communications Group and Addis Ababa University.