Alebel Bayru Weldesilassie

Alebel Bayru Weldesilassie is a researcher on the RISE Ethiopia team and a researcher at the Policy Studies Institute in Ethiopia. He has also served as member of the national technical committee in different sectoral policy formulation. He has served as a lecturer on development economics and managerial economics at Addis Ababa University. He holds a PhD in Economics from Hohenheim University, Germany and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley, USA in 2014. His research interest broadly focuses on micro-development economics, focusing on policy and institution economics. In addition to many sole and co-authored research reports, he has published in internationally peer reviewed economics journals. He is also member of national and international professional associations.