Created: 6/8/2011
Updated: 8/1/2022
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Dr.
Tewodros Kahsay
Assistant professor
Addis Ababa University
College of Business and Economics
P.O. Box 5563
Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa P.O.Box 5563
Ethiopia
tewodros.kahsay15@gmail.com
+251 944 705064 (ph)
+251 111 223774 (fx)
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Biography
ewodros Negash Kahsay is an Assistant Professor and member of the Research Unit in the Department of Economics at Addis Ababa University. He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the Department of Environmental Economics at VU University Amsterdam, an MSc in Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture from the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (formerly the Agricultural University of Norway), and a BA in Economics from the Department of Economics at Addis Ababa University. Since joining Addis Ababa University in 2001, he has been actively engaged in teaching, research, and academic supervision. His primary teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate courses in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics and Mathematical Economics. He has supervised numerous undergraduate research projects, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations in economics and related fields. Before joining academia, he served in government institutions, projects where he gained extensive professional experience in economic policy analysis, planning, and administration. He has also participated in numerous advanced professional training programmes offered by internationally recognized institutions, specializing in economic modelling, policy analysis, and quantitative research methods. Dr. Tewodros' principal areas of expertise include Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling using the GTAP family of models, including GTAP, GTAP-E, GTAP-E-Power, GTAP-W, GDyn and related extensions for trade policy analysis, climate change impact analysis and mitigation, environmental policy (carbon emission and carbon tax), and energy policy analysis. He also has experience in integrated hydro-economic modelling for evaluating water resource management and allocation policies, large-scale water infrastructure development (including dam projects), agricultural water use, and the economy-wide implications of climate change. In addition, he applies advanced econometric techniques to investigate a wide range of economic and development issues. His research interests encompass international trade, water resource economics, environmental economics, and climate change and energy economics.
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