Tagel Gebrehiwot is Center Director and a senior research fellow at the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) of the Policy Studies Institute. His field of expertise include policy impact evaluation, poverty and food security analysis, climate vulnerability assessments and farm level adaptation to climate change, environmental impact assessment, and agricultural insurance and risk sharing. He has ample experience in applied econometrics and spatial analysis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.