• Berhan Ahmedis an Eritrean–Australian social activist. He is the chairman of the African Think Tank,^[1] and in 2004 was the first immigrant born in Africa to run for an Australian parliamentary office.^[2] Ahmed was also presented the 2009 Victorian Australian of the Year ^[3]

Ahmed, originally a member of the Labor Party, ran for the Senate in 2004 for the Greens. He left that party soon afterwards.^[8]

Ahmed received four percent of the vote as an independent candidate for the 2012 Melbourne state by-election. Whilst he came sixth out of 16 candidates, he came third after eliminated candidate preferences with 15.9 percent. Ahmed had recommended preferencing Labor over the Greens on his how-to-vote card. Two thirds of his 15.9 percent primary and preference votes favoured Labor, putting Labor ahead of the Greens to win the seat.^[9]

In 2012, Ahmed ran for the council of the City of Melbourne, polling 2.45%.^[10] Robert Doyle was elected mayor.

Ahmed is the chairman of the Victoria-based Africa Think Tank,^[1] which serves migrant and refugee communities from Africa.^[11] He is involved in public advocacy on cultural issues, racism and human rights.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berhan_Ahmed