Dawit Diriba Guta graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, in 2015. He earned his BA Economics and MSc in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics from the Addis Ababa University in 2005 and 2008 respectively. Since January 2016, he has been with the Center for Environment and Development Studies of AAU, Ethiopia where currently he is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics. His main area of research interest is on natural and environmental economics applied to the field of renewable energy, bioenergy and bioeconomy, water-energy and food security nexus, valuation of environmental resources, forest, climate change, and rural livelihoods.