Hannah Getachew is a doctoral candidate at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. She is under the supervision of Dr Megan Bowman.

Hannah's research examines the climate resilience of the new African Continental Free Trade Area agreement with a view to transforming it into a tool for green growth.

She serves as a Senior Editor of the King's Student Law Review.

Hannah holds an LLM in Transnational Law from Peking University, an LLB from Queen Mary's University, and a BA in International Development and Economics from McGill University.

In her professional career, Hannah has worked for the United Nations based Africa Climate Policy Center as a climate law and policy researcher and the Ethiopian government as a climate negotiator.