Fikremariam Gedefaw

Fikremariam Gedefaw has been a Postgraduate Associate at EGC since August 2021, working on a portfolio of projects with a focus on state capacity and public service delivery in South Asia. Fikermariam will start his PhD in Public Policy at Berkeley Haas this fall.

This predoctoral fellowship has been an incredible learning opportunity. I got a good sense of frontier topics of research in the political economy of development; I learned about the methodological ingenuity that is required to establish causal links, as well as the patience and attention to detail needed to make scientific progress. –Fikremariam Gedefaw

It's been great having Fikre as part of our research team for the last couple of years. He always had a strong interest in learning about the entirety of the research process from idea generation through paper completion, so we're excited to see him go on to start his PhD. – Yusuf Neggers, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan