Alula Pankhurst is the Young Lives Ethiopia Country Director. He studied social Anthropology at Manchester University and taught at Addis Ababa University. His research interests include migration and displacement, poverty and wellbeing, food security and social protection, and children and youth development.

 

Philippa Bevan is an independent social researcher. She studied sociology at Oxford University and has worked as a researcher at Oxford and Bath Universities and also taught at Bath. Her main recent research interest has been the development and use of complexity-related methods to study social change in rural communities.

 

Catherine Dom is a Principal Consultant of Mokoro Ltd, Oxford, UK, with a post-graduate degree in development at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She has been involved in Ethiopia as a development consultant since 1999, and in research since 2007. Her interests include education, migration and rural livelihoods.

 

Agazi Tiumelissan is a research assistant with Young Lives Ethiopia. He studied Sustainable Development for his masters at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include education, social inequality and sustainability.

 

Sarah Vaughan is a research consultant and Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught African politics and social theory in Scotland and Ethiopia, and her research interests include the political economy of development, federalism and nationalism, conflict and power.