, the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines is Tewolde Gebremariam; he replaced Girma Wake in 2011. The airline, which is wholly owned by the Government of Ethiopia, has traditionally been unfettered by government intervention, even during times of significant turmoil and domestic hardship. Whereas many African state-owned airlines were and remain often poorly run, with staffings often serving nepotistic purposes, and business decisions being made on political grounds, Ethiopian Airlines remained professionally run and managed, leading the "Christian Science Monitor" to term it in 1988 a "capitalist success in Marxist Ethiopia".