Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham
Dr Bizuneh Yimenu is a teaching fellow at the School of Government of Birmingham University. He earned his PhD in comparative politics from the University of Kent. His PhD project entitled ‘Implementing Federalism in a Developing Country: The Case of Ethiopia, 1995-2020’ won the Civil Society Scholars Award of the Open Society Foundation. Bizuneh worked as an assistant lecturer and subject tutor from 2017 to 2022 at the University of Kent. Before joining Kent, he completed an MA and BA at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He also worked as a lecturer at Dilla University, Ambo University, and Ethiopian Civil Service University in Ethiopia between 2008 and 2017. Bizuneh is a teaching fellow of the Higher Education academy.
His research focuses on federalism, decentralisation, public policy, nationalism, territorial politics, and Africa. His research articles have been published in international journals such as Publius: The Journal of Federalism and Asian and African Studies. He published pieces on platforms such as Africanargument and Ethiopia Insight. He appears on international media such as Aljazeera to give expert comments regarding federalism and Ethiopia.
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