WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Current position/institutional affiliation (since January 2020). Economist, UNDCO/ UN Resident Coordinator’s Office – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• February 2017 – January 2020 – Research and M&E Adviser, UN Habitat (Ethiopia)
• 2012-2016 – Consulted various organizations such as UNCTAD, ITC, COMESA, national government institutions, MNCs and domestic business organizations in Ethiopia
• 2009 – 2012- Economist/Economics Specialist – UNDP South Sudan (Juba)
• 2007- 2009 – Managing Partner – Renaissance Consultancy PLC (Addis Ababa)
• 2001-2008 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia

SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

• Zinabu Samaro Rekiso, 2020. “Trade deficits as development deficits: Case of Ethiopia,” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 344-353. 
• Zinabu Samaro Rekiso, 2019. “Economics of Late Development and Industrialization for an African Setting: Putting Gebrehiwot Baykedagn (1886-1919) in Context”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 43, Issue 1, 17 January 2019, Pages 223–248)
• Zinabu Samaro Rekiso, 2017 “Rethinking Regional Economic Integration in Africa as if Industrialization Mattered”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Vol.43 (2017, pp. 87-98)
• “Education and Economic Development in Ethiopia: 1991-1917”, in Fantu Cheru, Christopher Cramer and Arkebe Oqubay (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Ethiopian Economy, Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Fantu Cheru and Zinabu S. Rekiso (2019), “Ethiopia’s ‘economic diplomacy’ and regional integration” in Fantu Cheru, Christopher Cramer and Arkebe Oqubay (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Ethiopian Economy, Oxford University Press, 2019.

EDUCATION:

• December 2018 – PhD in Technology Governance (Economics of Development) at Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Technology Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) (Dissertation Topic: Economics of Late Development, Industrialization and Economic Integration)
• August 2006 – MSc. in International Economics from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) 
• August 2001 – BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University