Lecturer
Department of Natural Resource Management
Gondar University
Ethiopia
Ato Asmamaw is currently a PhD student at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and University of Padova, Italy undertaking the FONASO double degree program. He joined the University of Gondar as a Lecturer within the Faculty of Agriculture in 2010. Prior to this he worked within field as Forestry Expert at the North Gondar Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Assistant Researcher at Forestry Research Center, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. Alongside the usual academic duties he served as Dean of the Faulty of Agriculture between 2009 and 2010 before leaving to pursue his studies.
Ato Asmamaw’s research interests focus on the areas of non-timber forest products commercialization, socioeconomics of tropical forestry and value chain analysis and development.