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I am an applied economist specializing in agricultural, environmental, health, and development economics, with a particular emphasis on productivity analysis, One Health economics, and climate policy. My work focuses on the design and evaluation of policies that balance productivity, public health, and environmental sustainability in low- and middle-income countries. I support sustainable agrifood system transformation by generating policy-relevant economic evidence to inform national strategies, global initiatives, and investment decisions, particularly in contexts characterized by structural constraints and uncertainty. 

My academic training spans Africa, Europe, and Australia. I earned my BSc in Economics from Jimma University in Ethiopia and completed my MSc and PhD at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, where I developed a strong foundation in applied, policy-oriented research in agricultural and environmental economics. I further expanded this work as a visiting scholar at the University of Western Australia, collaborating on applied research in climate policy and farm-level productivity analysis. My doctoral research focused on climate policy, productivity and efficiency analysis, biodiversity management, and sustainable agrifood systems.

Following my postgraduate studies, I served as a researcher at SLU, contributing to policy-oriented research on the welfare and distributional impacts of carbon taxation in the Swedish transport sector, alongside analytical work on biodiversity management and agricultural productivity. I also taught graduate-level courses in applied microeconomics at SLU and in energy and environmental economics within the Swedish Program at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

I am currently an economist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where I contribute to and help shape global and country-level economic analysis on antimicrobial resistance, livestock productivity dynamics, and climate adaptation and mitigation policies. I cordinate and contribute to integrated analytical work that combines micro- and spatial econometric methods with farm-level and economy-wide models to assess policy impacts, quantify trade-offs, and guide investment prioritization across countries and regions. My research has been published in journals including Nature Communications, Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, and the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

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