Abbi M. Kedir

Abbi M. Kedir is the Director of Research the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). He joined AERC in 2023 from the University of Sheffield, UK where he was serving as an Associate professor of International Business since 2016. In addition to long years of service in UK academia since 1999, he has experience of working in government (Ethiopia); the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and on various consulting assignments with the World Bank, UNDP, UN Women and the African Development Bank (AfDB).

He has published more than 50 journal articles and several book chapters. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Development Studies and Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. Currently, he is co-editing a Routledge Handbook on Development Economics and Development Finance and is a member of the IMF, Climate and Development Taskforce and the Technical Advisory Group of AUDA-NEPAD.