Tadele Ferede is affiliated with the Department of Economics at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Currently, he is the head of the Economics Department at Addis Ababa University, a senior research fellow with the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Journal of Economics of the Ethiopian Economics Association, and member of Executive Committee with the Ethiopian Economics Association.
He has more than twenty years of professional experience, working with government, private and other institutions. He also served as a Deputy Center Director with the Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, member of the National Technical Committee for Ethiopia’s WTO accession, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at the College of Business and Economics with Addis Ababa University. In addition, he has served as a researcher as well as a consultant in many national private and public institutions including United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Africa Development Bank (AfDB), World Bank/International Finance Corporation (IFC), International Labour Organization (ILO), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Recently, his research interest focuses on inclusive green growth, structural transformation, poverty, trade, agricultural-non-agricultural linkages, and labour market issues. He has produced and published several independent and joint research reports and journal articles. He is well versed in managing large datasets (both macroeconomic and microeconomic datasets), planning and organizing meetings, application of a combination of econometric and applied economy-wide models, involving both partial and general equilibrium approaches. He has competence in input-output, social accounting matrix and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models using general algebraic modelling system (GAMS).