{{short description|Ethiopian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Addisu Legesse | native_name = አዲሱ ለገሰ | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | office1 = Chairman of the Amhara Democratic Party | term_start1 = 1992 | term_end1 = 2010 | predecessor1 = ''position established '' | successor1 = Demeke Mekonnen | office2 = Chief Administrator of Amhara Region | deputy2 = | term_start2 = 1992 | term_end2 = 2000 | predecessor2 = ''position established '' | successor2 = Ayalew Gobeze | office3 = Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia | term_start3 = 2001 | term_end3 = 1 September 2010 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = Hailemariam Desalegn | office4 = Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development | successor4 = Girma Amente | term_start4 = 2000 | term_end4 = 2008 | predecessor4 = Tefera Deribew | birth_date = | birth_place = | party = Amhara Democratic Party | other_party = Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front <br> Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement | alma_mater = | signature = }} '''Addisu Legesse''' is an Ethiopian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 2000 to 2010. He was formerly the chairman of the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP), the Amhara region branch of the ruling EPRDF from 1992, a position from which he retired in 2010. He was also President of the Amhara Region from 1992 until 2000 and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development until 2008.<ref name=statesmen>{{cite web|title=Ethiopia|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Ethiopia_Regions.html|publisher=WorldStatesmen|accessdate=20 August 2013}}</ref> He then served as chairman of Ethiopian Airlines.<ref name=Nazret>{{cite web|title=Addisu Legesse replaces Seyoum Mesfin as Ethiopian board chairman|url=http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/02/ethiopia-addisu-legesse-replaces-seyoum-mesfin-as-ethiopian-board-chairman|publisher=Nazret.com|accessdate=20 August 2013|archive-date=10 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810020639/http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/02/ethiopia-addisu-legesse-replaces-seyoum-mesfin-as-ethiopian-board-chairman|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a head of the Meles Zenawi Academy, a quasi educational institution that is designed to train future EPRDF cadres in the ideology of Zenawism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/ethiopia_the_maoist_hallmarks_of_melesis?blog=15 |title=Ethiopia - the Maoist hallmarks of Melesism |access-date=2016-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810020742/http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/ethiopia_the_maoist_hallmarks_of_melesis?blog=15 |archive-date=2016-08-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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