Awards & Grants

Awards

• Emerald Literati Outstanding Reviewer, African Journal of Economic and Management Studies (Sept 2022)

• Second-Best Research Paper at the African Economic Conference by UNDP, UNECA and AfDB (Dec 2018)

• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Young Fellowship Award (2017, declined)

• Professor Hans Opschoor Award for Best Research Paper (Master’s thesis), Economics of Development, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Netherlands (December 2010)

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership Grant on the Project “Navigating Canadian Trade Disputes: Implications for Ontario’s Agri-Food Exports and the Role of Provincial Economic Diplomacy” (with Getu Hailu). Amount awarded: C$179,250 (2024-2027)

• Principal Investigator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Institutional Grant on "Economic Sanctions and Food Aid". Amount awarded: C$6,550 (2023-2025)

• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-AFRI Conference Grant for the 2023 International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) on the topic "The Future of (Ag-) Trade and Trade Governance in Times of Economic Sanctions and Declining Multilateralism", Co-PI with Fabio Santeramo, Sandro Steinbach, and Annelies Deuss. Amount awarded: US $50,000 (2023).

• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-AFRI Grant: Economics, Markets, and Trade, “Economic Diplomacy, WTO Trade Disputes, and Agri-Food Trade. Evidence from the United States,” c0-PI with Sunghun Lim and P. Lynn Kennedy, Amount awarded: US $530,000 (2023-2026)

• Jean Monnet Fellowship Grant, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Amount awarded: €21,000 (2023 -2024)

• Principal Investigator (with Andreas Boecker), Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance Research Grant of C$134,400 on "Opportunities and Challenges for Ontario's Agri-Food Exports in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing Trade Environment" (2022-2025)

• Principal Investigator, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya, grant of US $12,500 on Agricultural and Food Policy for Nutrition Outcome (June -Dec. 2021)

• Co-applicant (with Eugene Beaulieu), Vice President Research (VPR) Catalyst Grant of the University of Calgary, Alberta of C$10,646 on Economic Diplomacy, Trade Disputes and Agri-Food Trade (Dec. 2020-June 2021)

• Principal Investigator, Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance Research Grant of C$71,320 on "Exports and Markets Diversification within the Canadian Agri-Food Sector" (2019-2021) 

• United Nations University - World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki Travel Grant to Thailand (Sept 2019) of US $5,000

• SSHRC General Research Fund of C$3,053, University of Guelph (March 2019)

• Max Weber Post-doctoral grant of €32,400 (2015/16), European University Institute, Florence, Italy

• Travel grant of US$3,000 by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to present at the Eighth Annual African Economic Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa (October 2013)

• Travel grant of €1,500.00 by the German Research Committee for Development Economics (AEL) to present at the Seventh Annual AEL Conference in Berlin, Germany (June 2011)

• Ph.D. Fellowship by the Danish Government of DKK 1,024,903 (Aug 2012 - Sept 2015)

• Master’s Degree fellowship by the Dutch government of €36,000 (Sept. 2009—Dec. 2010)