Alula Yohannes Taddesse is the Managing Director of VP Electrical Power Systems in Ethiopia, a company active in the areas of power quality, energy efficiency, and micro-grid. He previously worked for Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, a public-owned vertically integrated electrical power company.

Alula has a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Mekelle Institute of Technology and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands, and for Smart Grids and Buildings from Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP), France.