Hailai Weldeslassie

Personal Profile Statement A visionary, inspired, versatile, efficient team facilitator with exceptional communication and interpersonal competencies, reliable, target oriented, with sufficient competency, wisdom and skills of Economics graduate pursuing a position in teaching, research, consultancy, banking, and other Economics position that will use the professional and technical skills developed through past work experiences in this area. I have a systematic, customer-focused approach to work and a strong drive to see things through to completion. I deliver all the responsibilities with an unwavering commitment, passion, focused, industrious, integrity mixed with maximum professionalism, honesty, transparency, accountability, and social transformation. Professionalism: I have the needed qualities such as a sound knowledge of dynamic and comprehensive economic and social development issues at the local, regional, global arena with a superb understanding of them in the areas of focus. I am committed to staying updated and flexible on in innovations with a unique skills in developing quantitative research design, with scientific power analysis, sample size determination, identifying sources for data collection; ability to analyses data and produce reports and design best and sound execution strategies; coupled with, dynamic ability to plan, organize own work, to work to support and in cooperation with others. I show pride in work and in achievements; show professional competence and mastery of subject; am conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; am motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; I show persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; I remain calm in stressful situations. I take responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work. I am a confident professional communicator with outstanding listening, understanding, coordinating, sharing and caring, consensus galvanizing, enhancing, inspiring, and motivating skills. Communications and Interpersonal Skills: My tremendous experience shows that I am a virtuoso at managing multiple, diverse tasks simultaneously; work well under pressure. Plus, I can use a strong technical background to analyze complex processes and develop innovative solutions to challenges. Equally, I speak and write and electively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; ask questions to clarify and exhibit an interest in having a two-way communication; tailors language, tone, style and format to match audience; shows openness in sharing information and keeping people informed. Teamwork I am a superstar team player and facilitator with exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills, coupled with a magnanimous track record of gaining greater efficiencies from existing resources. Comparatively, I am a highly creative, self-motivated individual with years of experience. Equally important, I work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; will learn from others; places team agenda before personal agenda; supports and acts under a final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position; shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings. Planning and Organizational Skills I am a self-motivated manager with strong and transformational leadership and customer service backgrounds. Vivid abilities in leadership, planning, and organizational decision-making and team building are some of my key qualities. I develop clear goals consistent with agreed strategies; identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required; allocates an appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; optimizes. scored A’s and other resounding triumphs. Also, during my Master’s program I equipped myself as best as I could, with various tools used in economic analysis. I got rigorous training in mathematics, econometrics and game theory. Likewise, I am a devoted reader of The Economics, World Economic Forum, The Oxford Poverty and Hu- man Development Initiative, Institute for New Economics Thinking and related websites have a magnanimous influence and shaped my perspective of economics. Development Economics, Welfare, Multidimensional Poverty, Inequality, Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Security, Structural Transformation in Agriculture, Adoption and Use of Agricultural Technology and Labour Productivity, the Political Economy of Agriculture, Randomized Impact Analysis; the Capability Approaches by A. Sen, the concepts of economic freedom, economic functioning, agents, multidimensional Poverty analysis, data and easement issues, re- search design and analysis, education and health economics are my desired areas of research and my lifelong learning. Outside academia, I have a great passion in voluntary community engagement/services, socialization, football, swimming, delivering research training, blogging on various socio economic issues, serving the community especially the destitute at any level. Career Goals To become the best Professor of Economics, researcher, consultant, Economics Advisor, Entrepreneur, and Economic Analyst committed towards sustainable, inclusive and transformative economic development. In a nutshell, Passionate Economics Professor, Researcher, Advisor, and Consultant public and private school companies and institutions. Motivational educator committed to helping each student understand the fundamental concepts in Multidimensional Deprivations, Societal Welfare, inequality, Impacts of global Climate change and environmental security. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [Job Title] position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

• Interests http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3076888
• Team Work- I have participated in the national curriculum review and development and our team participated actively
• I was a Part-Time Employee in the Inter Africa Group-Tigrai
• Parliamentary Program
• International Research Experience - Plus, I participated in a research as an assistant in
• International Research entitled Revisiting Dominant Notions: A Review of Costs,
• Performance, and Institutions of Small Reservoirs in Sub-Saharan Africa; Sponsored by
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Research Report 144; Authored by
• Jean-Philippe Venot, Charlotte de Fraiture, and Ernest Nti Acheampong
• International Presentation I presented International Experience in Ethiopia in the Tarleton State
• University International Workshop on Nov
• 17-23/2013, in Texas, USA
• My presentation schedule date and time: 6:00 p.m., Thursday, Nov
• 21, 2013 Place: TSU-Workshop Theatre,
• Fine Arts Building Presentation Summary
• History, Political Economy and Customs in Ethiopia (Overview)
• Academic (Staff and Students) Exchange between Ethiopian and U.S
• Universities
• Potential Collaborative Research Area between Tarleton and Aksum University
• As an instructor in a University where students came from more than 85 nationalities, I not only tolerate different cultures, behaviors of individuals but also appreciated that kind of difference
• International Training Experience I was a student /participant at the Summer School 2016 on
• Multidimensional Poverty Analysis organized by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development
• Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, in collaboration with the International Poverty
• Reduction Center in China (IPRCC) and Beijing Normal University (BNU), that was hosted at
• Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China, 1-13 August 2016
• Publications I was a team leader and principal investigator (PI) on a National Research Project
• Exploring the Status and Prospects of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Northern
• Ethiopia’ sponsored by Tigray Regional State, Bureau of Planning and Finance which is published in the National Bulletin Magazine in Ethiopia in 2013
• My Master Research Dissertation
• Is Microfinance Effective Poverty Reduction Intervention Tool
• An Impact Analysis
• Approach” is in the final stage of publication by the Journal of African Evaluation
• Ongoing Projects
• Household Well-being in Ethiopia: Multidimensional Poverty, Time Use to Work and
• Labor Productivity, and Nutrition Insecurity
• The Fusion between Biodiversity, Multidimensional Poverty, Climate Change,
• Environmental Sustain- ability and Development in Ethiopia, Company University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Position Senior Economics Lecturer and
• Researcher
• Contact vermaakc@kzn.ac.za
• Name Gebrehaweria Gebregziabher /Ph.D
• Company : International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Eastern Africa and Nile Basin sub-regional office
• Position Research Economist
• Contact G.gebrezgianhre@cgiar.org
• Name Mammo Muchie/Proffesor/
• Company Tshwane University of
• Technology Position DST/NRF Rated
• Research Professor Contact
• MuchieM@tut.ac.za

• Since my elementary school years I have had a strong curiosity, passion and was moved by in the community that I used to live in; enthusiastic to comprehend the invisible laws central to the production, distribution, and consumption of the material welfare of humankind in the face of resources scarcity, competing ends and/ or unlimited wants. So I was fervent to follow up the dynamics of socio economic affairs (locally, regionally and globally) on median events. Besides, I was keen on knowing tracking and the resolutions to multidimensional local, national and global deprivations, inequality of outcomes, opportunities and autonomous, I show pride in providing solutions to complex and interwoven problems, hungry for continuous achievements, industries to develop lifelong learning and show the competency, Skill, knowledge, and aptitude to analyses, synthesis and the mastery of energy and environmental security issues of debt and housing, taxes and public expenditures, inclusive economic growth, cost-of-living surges and unemployment, food security, conflict and poverty, biodiversity depletion and climate change, gender equity/economics of race and the labour market, affordable and quality health services, international trade and global imbalances, monetary policy, fiscal policy, governance and development welfare theories, and social security, the goods market, the money market, the labour market, market failures, and so forth. The best discipline that encompasses all these fundamental concepts, theories, principles, applications is economics. It is a discipline to which I find myself highly passionate, motivated, moved by and in- tensely attracted. When I started economics in high school I apprehended that it was entertainingly qualified as a subject of both Arts and Science. It was an area defined by precise rules, principles and axioms, and yet there was a tremendous scope for self-expression in the form of interpretation and analysis. This facade of economics intrigued me very much, and I pursued further studies in economics. It is exciting how the formal and analytical nature of this discipline can undertake such distinctly organic and complex concepts as welfare relating to society; the enmeshing of