Eyob Awash (Senior Associate) is a practicing lawyer focusing in areas of Non-Profit and Civil Societies Law, International Public Law, Law of International Organizations, Human Rights and Criminal Justice, Access to Justice, Procurement law and Construction law. He advised a major transnational companies, and advises several foreign and local Civil Societies on the Civil Societies Proclamation of Ethiopia

Eyob received his LL.B degree from Mekelle University, Ethiopia, in 2007 and his LL.M degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 2010. He is also teaches at Addis Ababa University School of Law, since September 2014. Previously, he had worked as lecturer in Mekelle University from July 2007 to August 2014. He was Director of Mekelle University legal aid centre from December 2010 to August 2014.