predecessor successor religion birth_place party office primeminister birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
negasso gidada mulatu teshome ethiopian orthodoxy addis ababa , ethiopia independent president of federal democratic republic of ethiopia meles zenawi hailemariam desalegn 1924 12 8 october 2001 president + girma woldegorgis.jpg girma wolde-giorgis
 7 october 2013 girma wolde-giorgis ግርማ ወልደ ጊዮርጊስ
girma wolde-giorgis

girma wolde-giorgis -lrb- ge'ez : ግርማ ወልደ ጊዮርጊስ ; born december 1924 -rrb- is an ethiopian politician who was the president of ethiopia from 2001 to 2013 .
he was the second person to hold the office of president since the founding of the federal republic of ethiopia in 1995 .
