Adugna Lemi

Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston. Professor Lemi has served as the Chair of the Department of Economics for seven years, between September 2015 and August 2022. Prior to joining UMass Boston, was an assistant professor at Winona State University in Minnesota. He has been teaching courses in Economic Development, International Trade, Applied Microeconomics, Multinational Corporations, and International Political Economy both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Since 2007, he has also been working with Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia, and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Nairobi, Kenya as a visiting professor and consultant. At both institutions, he supervised graduate students and ran seminars to prepare students for their thesis work.

Research interests focus on economic development in Africa, capital flow and its determinants in developing countries, multinational corporations, and their role in developing countries, as well as issues of poverty, trade, and income diversification in Ethiopia. Is works have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including, the World Economy, Empirical Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, International Trade Journal, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Transnational Corporations Journal, African Finance Journal, Journal of Economic Development, and International Journal of Education Economics and Development, among others. Currently working on a book project titled “Frontiers of the Last Frontier: Trade, Productivity, and Poverty in Africa What Have We Learned from Survey Data”.