William Davison

William Davison is the Senior Analyst for Ethiopia at the International Crisis Group, an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. As a journalist and analyst, he has worked in and on Ethiopia for over a decade. For 2010 to 2017 he was the Ethiopia correspondent for Bloomberg. He also reported on Ethiopia frequently for The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, and other international outlets. At that time, he was the head of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Ethiopia.

In response to his forthright coverage of sensitive developments and issues in Ethiopia, he was deported from Ethiopia in early 2018. That year he founded Ethiopia Insight, an observer organization focused on the country and region. In 2019 he joined the International Crisis Group and was able to return to Ethiopia, only to be deported again in late 2020. He now continues his coverage of Ethiopia from his base in Kenya.