Yisak Tafere

Yisak Tafere is the Lead Qualitative Researcher on the RISE Ethiopia team based at the Policy Studies Institute in Ethiopia. He is also the Lead Qualitative Researcher on the Young Lives programme in Ethiopia. He has an MA in Social Anthropology from Addis Ababa University and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Child Research from the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology (NTNU). His research interests include life-course and childhood poverty, intergenerational poverty, well-being and transitions; girls' early marriage, aspirations and achievements, child work and social protection.