Solomon Zena Walelign
Spring 2020
Solomon Zena Walelign is a Director of Research at the International Centre for Evaluation and Development. He is also a consultant in the Development Economics Vice Presidency – Development Policy Group at the World Bank and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Gondar. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley and the University of South Carolina, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He completed a double Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen and in Forest Sciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Solomon’s main research interest includes agriculture, livelihoods, poverty, natural resource management, migration, and forced displacement. His current research investigates the impacts of refugees on host communities, largescale agricultural land investment on local communities, and physical infrastructure on nutritious diet, gender empowerment, and equality. He conducted fieldwork in Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.