About

Sileshi is an agroecologist with over 25 years of international research and development experience. He was formerly the Regional Representative of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in southern Africa. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Addis Ababa University, a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He also works as a consultant for several CGIAR centers, UN organizations, AGRA and other international institutions. Sileshi's major research interest is in production ecology linking plot-level patterns to landscape level processes and ecosystem services. He has over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has co-edited three books.