Solomon Zena Walelign is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Gondar, a research fellow at the Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute, and a Research Associate at the International Center for Evaluation and Development (ICED). He is also a research consultant at the World Bank, and a fellow of Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NEIRA). Previously, he was a Young Fellow in Forced Displacement at the World Bank, 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.
His recent research focuses on forced displacement, conflict, violence, and peacebuilding. He also has interest in research themes of climate change adaptation, livelihoods, poverty, agriculture, natural resource management, migration, and land tenure. His current research investigates the impacts of refugees on host communities; largescale agricultural land investment on local communities; physical infrastructure on nutritious diet, gender empowerment, and equality; climate change adaptation in Africa; and cost-benefit analysis of horticulture production. His research has been published in World Development, The Journal of Development Studies, Applied Economics Letters, and Ecological Economics, among others. He has conducted fieldwork in Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.
