Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab

Who is Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab?

Ghebre Selassie Mehreteab is an adviser to major foundations and financial institutions, working on housing and community revitalization issues.

Mr. Mehreteab served as Chief Executive Officer of The NHP Foundation until September 2009. The NHP Foundation. In 1989, he founded and developed NHPF into a leading national nonprofit owner of multi-family housing for low- and moderate-income families in the United States. During his twenty years as NHPF’s Co-Chairman and CEO, he utilized public and private financing sources including debt and grants, to acquire, preserve, rehabilitate and build NHPF’s portfolio of 46 properties totaling 10,640 housing units in 14 states.

He was a program officer at the Ford Foundation from 1981 to 1987. He was responsible for community and economic revitalization programs. Previously, he served as an associate director of the New World Foundation in New York and worked at a variety of community-based organizations in Philadelphia, PA.

As of 2011 Mehreteab was serving on the Board of Directors for Douglas Emmett Inc., a real estate investment trust on its Audit and Executive Compensation committees. Mehreteab sits on the Board of Directors of the Lockhart Companies, a private real estate, insurance and financing company on the Executive, Personnel and Compensation Committees.