Dr. Yigezu Atnafe Yigezu is an agricultural economist who focuses on international development. He has research interest and experience in various areas of agricultural development, including production economics, technology adoption, out-scaling and impact assessment, policy and institutional analysis, bio-economic modeling of production systems, natural resource and environmental economics, and crop and livestock value chain analysis. Yigezu has over 100 publications, including 30+ peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, and 6 working papers in numbered series. Yigezu has also co-edited a book and has many manuscripts currently under review with ISI journals and in the pipeline. In the last eight years alone, he has raised over US$3.61 million in research funding. Yigezu earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from Purdue University, USA, and two bachelor's degrees (one in statistics and one in economics) from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. His quantitative skills include mathematical programming, econometrics, stochastic dynamic programming, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling. Prior to his graduate studies, Yigezu worked for 14 years—10 years with the Ministry of Water Resources of Ethiopia, 2 years with Alem Children Support Organization (ACSO), and 2 years with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).