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Kibreab Habtemichael Gebereselassie

Head of Department, Ombuds Department for Anti-Discrimination, City of Frankfurt am Main, Germany & Senior Lecturer
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Visiting Toronto Metropolitan University

Fall 2026

Kibreab Habtemichael Gebereselassie holds a PhD in Administrative Sciences and studied Socio-Political Geography, alongside Sociology. Currently, he serves as the Head of the Ombuds Department for Anti-Discrimination. Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Gebereselassie has held numerous leadership positions. He served for several years as the Director of the Viernheim Integration Office and went on to lead the Department of Migration and Human Rights at the Academy of the Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Additionally, he was the Head of the Department for International Affairs and Europe for the City of Sindelfingen, and the Head of the Office for Integration and Social Development at the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis District Office. As an active Senior Lecturer at various Universities in Germany, his research and teaching focus on migration theory, migration and geopolitics, migrant representation, administrative response to migration, intercultural communication, and diversity.

Research focus while a Fellow at Global Migration Institute

During the fellowship, Kibreab Habtemichael Gebereselassie proposes to develop a comparative research project on local anti-discrimination governance and inclusive urban institutions in multicultural cities, focusing on the cases of Frankfurt and Toronto. The project aims to explore how municipal governments design and implement institutional mechanisms that address discrimination while strengthening social cohesion and democratic participation in diverse societies.

The research project will be guided by the following questions: How do cities develop institutional frameworks to address discrimination and promote inclusive participation in diverse urban contexts? What role do municipal administrations and civil society partnerships play in shaping effective local migration governance? How do different urban migration regimes influence the development of anti-discrimination policies and integration strategies (Comparative governance and policy transfer between cities such as Frankfurt and Toronto)?

Publications and Reports

Gebereselassie, Kibreab Habtemichael. (2019). Afro - European Geopolitics: The Paradox of Africa - Past and Present.

Gebereselassie, Kibreab Habtemichael & G.Marinelli, & A.Groterath, & V.Langher,. (2020). G. Marinelli, V. Langher, A. Groterath, K. Habtemichael, The Viernheim Study: use Clinical Psycology to Explore Integration Capacities of a German Community.

Migration & Refugees: Global Patterns and Local Contexts: edited by Daniel Leitch, Angelika Groterath and Kibreab Habtemichael. Hauppauge, NY, USA, Nova Science Publishers, 2019. ISBN 978-1-53615-400-9.