Wogene Berhanu Mena

Wogene Berhanu Mena is a teaching and research assistant (prae doc) at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. His academic background includes BA/MA degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and an MA in Intercultural Conflict Management from Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.

• Current focus on diversity management through ethnic/gender/religious/class intersections
• Active in refugee integration and conflict management research
• Recipient of WU SoTL Scholarship and Civil Society Leadership Award

His work examines labor control regimes in Ethiopian industrial parks and social class impacts on student interactions, with fieldwork-based publications on Eritrean/Somali refugee communities in Ethiopia.

Research trends combine qualitative case studies and theoretical frameworks from organizational sociology, African studies, and migration research.

Scientific Awards

• WU Scholarship for Teaching and Learning (SoTL), 2023
• Civil Society Leadership Award, 2019