Solomon Zena Walelign

Solomon Zena Walelign is the Executive Director of the Policy Innovation Research Center in Ethiopia and a 2020 CEGA Fellow. His research interests are in agriculture, climate change, forced displacement, and peacebuilding. His current research includes studies on the effects of insured agricultural loans on agricultural productivity, career support programs on employment, and intergroup contact on prejudice. He has conducted fieldwork in Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania and has served as a short-term consultant at the World Bank. Previously, he was Director of Research and Innovation at the International Center for Evaluation and Development and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Walelign holds Ph.D.s in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University of Copenhagen and Forest Sciences from Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.