Tsadkan Gebreyesus

Tsadkan graduated her BA degree in economics from Hawassa University, Ethiopia. In 2013, she received a Vlir-uos scholarship award for her advanced MSc degree in Globalization and development program at university of Antwerp, Belgium. During her MSc degree, she produced a research work titled “Export Survival of Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: Empirical Evidence” and she published her work in the Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development. In 2018, she got Women for Africa foundation scholarship award for her advanced master in Economics at university of Granada, Spain. Her master program in economics was the foundation for her current research interest which emerged after she took the courses of behavioural economics, experimental economics and dynamic macroeconomics.   

Tsadkan worked as a lecturer at different universities in Ethiopia. Arba Minch University, Addis Ababa University and Mekelle University are among others. In addition, she was actively participating in evaluating research works for undergraduate students and in research activities for solving community problems. Moreover, she served as a senior research officer at TZG General Development Research, mainly working on coordinating, monitoring and evaluating projects; developing survey instruments, facilitating and conducting supervision of surveys, data management and analysing.   

Currently (2022), Tsadkan has joined University of Technology Sydney (UTS) for her PhD programme and she is doing her coursework as a basis for her future research work.