About Me - Addisu Lashitew

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Nonresident Fellow
Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

Office: DSB Building, Room 223, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M4

My Curriculum vitae can be found HERE.

Social and Academic Network

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Research Interests

• Social entrepreneurship
• Innovation studies
• Firm performance
• Business & society issues

Education

• University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  PhD in Economics
  Thesis: “Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity”
  Supervisors: Professors Marcel Timmer & Robert Inklaar

• Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
  MSc in Environmental Economics
  Minor in Development Economics

Employment History

• McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  Assistant Professor (Nov. 2021- present)
  DeGroote School of Business, Strategic Management Area

• Brookings Institution, Brookings Institution
  Brookings Institution (Nov. 2021- present)
  Research Program: Global Economy and Development

• Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Commerce (2018- present)
  Teaching Duty: PhD Course in Statistical Methods

• Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
  David Rubenstein Research Fellow (Oct. 2019- Oct. 2021)
  Research Program: Global Economy and Development

• Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
  Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Feb. 2018- Oct. 2019)
  Research Project: Natural resources and economic development

• Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Feb. 2015- Jan. 2018)
  Research Project: Business and inclusive development in Africa
  Additional Duties: Teaching support; master’s thesis supervision

• University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
  Lecturer at Dep. of Global Economics & Management (Jan. 2014- Feb. 2015)
  Courses Taught: International Business & Economics, Intermediate Research Methods, Strategy, Culture & Economics

Grants and Scholarships

• Publications Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Stakeholder Capitalism and Workers’ Rights: $60,000 (2022)

• AERC Research Grant: Power Outage & Firm Performance: $20,000 (2018)

• PhD Project Grant: Netherlands Organization for Scienti€c Research (NWO): Euros 210,000 (2010-2014)

• International Association for Research in Income and Wealth conference travel grant: $4,000 (2012)

• Wageningen University M.Sc. Scholarship: Tuition waiver and monthly stipend (2006-2008)