Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Ethiopia. He is a development economist whose recent research has covered agricultural transformation; impact evaluation (including impact evaluation of large multi-year public programmes); social protection; individual psycho-social characteristics, behaviour, and well-being outcomes; risk and insurance; consumption patterns and demand elasticities; cooperatives; and inter-sectoral linkages and growth. The bulk of Alemayehu's research focuses on Ethiopia, with ongoing contributions to studies on Sudan and earlier work on sub-Saharan Africa. He is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Alemayehu has previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Addis Ababa University and an Economic Affairs Officer at the UNECA. He holds a BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University, an M.Sc. in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, and a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford.