Halefom Yigzaw Nigus is a Research Collaborator in the Development and Governance Unit (DSG) at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Most of his existing research focuses on the East Africa region, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Kenya, and involves impact evaluations, lab-in-the-field experiments, self-reported and incentivized surveys, and micro-econometrics. Halefom is also a Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) in Ethiopia and the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) in Kenya. His previous roles include consultant positions at the World Bank Group and the University of Oxford. Recently, he was a CEGA Fellow at Northwestern University's Global Poverty Research Lab. Halefom received his PhD in Development Economics from UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.