About the Speaker: 

Dr. Dawit D. Guta, an Ethiopian national, has over 12 years of professional experience in research and teaching at higher education institutions in Ethiopia, Germany, and Canada. Before joining Addis Ababa University in early 2016, he held the position of senior researcher at the Center for Development Research, at the University of Bonn, Germany for one year. He graduated with BA and MSc degrees in Economics from Addis Ababa University and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Bonn. He is now an Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at the College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, and a Postdoc researcher at the UBC Department of Forest Resource Management.

His main area of research interest is in natural and environmental economics applied to the field of energy demand model, renewable energy, water-energy and food nexus, valuation of environmental resources, forest, climate change, and rural livelihoods.