From January 2009 Alemu Mekonnen is the coordinator of the EfD Center in Ethiopia - EEPFE, Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia.
Alemu Mekonnen has been an EfD research fellow ever since the EfD initiative started in 2007. His research has been on energy and forestry in Ethiopia and he will continue to work on similar issues in the near future.
"As a coordinator I look forward to working togeteher with EEPFE (the EfD Center in Ethiopia) staff, all other EfD staff, and others all over the world to achieve the objectives of EfD, says Mekonnen.
He takes over from Mahmud Yesuf, who concluded his two-year commitment as a coordinator in the end of 2008. Yesuf is now a resident advisor at the EfD centre of Kenya