Bekele Shiferaw

Bekele Shiferaw joined PEP as Executive Director in Oct 2013. He is a Development and Resource Economist with wide experience in Africa, South Asia and recently in Latin America. He received his PhD degree from the School of Economics and Business, University of Life Sciences, Norway. Before coming to PEP, Dr. Shiferaw has worked for the CGIAR system, where he has served in various capacities for over 12 years, including the position of Principal Development Economist and Director of the Socio-Economics Program since 2009 at CIMMYT, based in Kenya. Prior to that, he was the Regional Program Leader (Eastern and Southern Africa) for Socioeconomics and Policy research at ICRISAT. From 2001-2004, he served ICRISAT in South Asia (based in India) as a Development and Resource Economist working on poverty, vulnerability and environmental policy issues. He has lead several major international initiatives including Policies for Sustainable Intensification; Global Futures for Agriculture; Agriculture and Climate Change; and Policies, Institutions and Markets for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development in the developing world. His research interests include economic modeling; farm-household decision making; gender and development; analysis of poverty, food and nutritional security; markets and trade; impact assessment; climate risk and vulnerability; and policies for climate adaptation, environment and sustainable development. He has won numerous awards and grants from major donors and published over 50 papers in professional journals, books and others.

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