Alemu, Tekie

Tekie Alemu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia which is housed at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute. He was also the Dean of School of Economics and assistant professor at Addis Ababa University. He specializes in environmental and resource economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Gothenburg in 1999. The title of his dissertation was ‘Land tenure and soil conservation: Evidence from Ethiopia’. Currently, his research focuses on rural land tenure and land administration issues in Ethiopia.

Expertise/Research interest:

• Resource economics
• Property rights and land tenure
• Poverty analysis