Senior Policy Consultant in international economic development, Consultant Moderator at United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 

Mizanekristos Yohannes is a development policy analyst and planner focused on African countries. His career in development started as a researcher, critique, and social justice advocate targeting the Western-led international cooperation, particularly the IFI (World Bank and IMF).   He holds an MA in International Development from Southern New Hampshire University.  He completed a post-graduate fellowship at Brown University as researcher on Ethiopia’s peace and food-security strategy during the post-1991 transitional government.  He has immersed himself more as a development practitioner in Ghana, Ethiopia and South Sudan.  His recent work involves moderating a knowledge-sharing online platform of African Development Planners on behalf of the UNECA.  As consultant to UNECA he also guided software development for SDG-aligned medium-term national planning.

His work experience includes designing innovative programs in key sectors including industrial, agricultural, urban housing and infrastructure, education, WATSAN, public health, Banking and Finance.  In designing programs, he focuses on how countries and communities can plan and achieve accelerated development locally and self-reliantly.  These days, he concentrates on research and design of alternative domestic financial architecture to achieve full employment through post-war reconstruction, and sustainable development projects in the Horn of Africa.