Solomon Zena Walelign is a Director of Research at the International Centre for Evaluation and Development. He is also a Consultant at the World Bank, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Gondar, and a Research Fellow at Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley and the University of South Carolina, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He completed a double Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen and in Forest Sciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Solomon’s main research interest includes livelihoods, poverty, agriculture, natural resource management, migration, and forced displacement. His current research investigates the impacts of refugees on host communities; largescale agricultural land investment on local communities; physical infrastructure on nutritious diet, gender empowerment, and equality; and cost-benefit analysis of horticulture production. His research has been published in World Development, The Journal of Development Studies, Applied Economics Letters, and Ecological Economics, among others. He conducted fieldwork in Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.