Dr. Hailemariam Ayalew Tiruneh is a Research Fellow in the Development Strategy and Governance Unit. His research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on the impact evaluation of different policy interventions on smallholder farm households in developing countries.

Before joining IFPRI, Hailemariam worked as a Departmental Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Oxford University. In collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), he was a Marie-Curie postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Hailemariam received his Ph.D. and MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2015, he was a visiting scholar and research fellow at the East African Social Science Transition (EASST) at the University of California in Berkeley. He also worked as a short-term consultant at the World Bank and a senior consultant at DAI Global (UK).