Abel Yonas Zekarias, Ph.D.

With high-level professional experience in academia and NGOs, I consistently drive impactful results in the positions I have held over the last 12+ years. In my current position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wachemo University, I have demonstrated excellence in research, teaching, and community engagement, with a specialized focus on Forced displacements, migration and refugee dynamics within the Horn of Africa. As the Focal Doctoral Representative at Bielefeld University, Germany, I led plenary meetings, fostering connections. In my role as Department Head at Wachemo University, Ethiopia, I steered administrative functions, ensuring a high education standard with professional leadership. As a Lecturer at Wolkite University, I prioritized developing my students in scientific and practical knowledge and skills. As the Manager of the Emanuel Women and Children’s Development Association, I executed innovative projects that changed the dire livelihoods of women and children in the community. In my project coordination position at the Ethiopian Catholic Church, Voluntas Dei Institute, I planned, implemented, monitored, and evaluated projects, and coordinated and supervised projects. As a dynamic professional, I am ready to drive impactful change with the highest professionalism and ethical standards, even in emergency conditions.

• Planning For Monitoring and Evaluation
• Supply Chain Managements
• Fundamentals of Project Management
• Leadership
• Networking and Communication Skills for Academics
• Atlas.ti (Qualitative Data Analysis Software)
• Computer Skills: Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, and Access
• German Language Proficiency (A1-B2)
• English Language Proficiency
• Development Team Training Program

• Society for Environmental Protection Club
• KAAD Scholar
• International Sociological Association (ISA)
• Institute for World Society

• 4th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 'Ql towards Sustainability', 02/05/2020, St. George's Bay, St. Julians, Malta
• 17th Annual Conference of International Migration Integration and Social Cohesion (IMSCOE), 07/01/2020, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Using Deleuze and Collaborative Writing in Troubled Times: Engaging Activism and Resistance through Collective Writing, 02/04/2020, St. George's Bay, St. Julians, Malta
• Walking with Theory: New Materialist/Posthumanist Encounters with Objects, Bodies, and Spaces, 02/04/2020, St. George's Bay, St. Julians, Malta
• Make an Impact! Networking and Communication Skills for Academics, Fall-Winter Semester 2021/2022, Bielefeld University
• ATLAS.ti, Fall-Summer Semester 2022, Bielefeld University
• Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnographic Research, Fall-Summer Semester 2020, Bielefeld University
• Research Methods: Understanding and (Qualitative) Analysis, Fall-Winter Semester 2022/2023, Bielefeld University
• Social Protection and Labour Market, Fall-Winter Term 2019/2020 - Winter Term 2021/2022, Bielefeld University
• Economy, Politics, and Society, Fall-Summer Term 2022 - Winter Term 2022/2023, Bielefeld University
• The Socio-Ecological Question: Mobility in Times of the Climate Crisis, Fall-Summer Term 2021 - Winter Term 2021/2022, Bielefeld University

• The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Ethiopian Recipient Households: Rising to Prosperity or Falling to Ruin?, Zekarias, A.Y., 2023, Bielefeld University, https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/2984756
• The Nature and Patterns of International Migration of Ethiopia, Zekarias, A.Y., 2023, IntechOpen, 10.5772/intechopen.108056
• Migration as an adaptive strategy to climate change in Ethiopia: Venturing into unexplored territories, Zekarias, A. Y., Zecharias, Y. Y., 2023, World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.20.3.2530
• Return to 'inevitable home': Forfeits of Unemployment and Failed Migration among University Graduates in Southern Ethiopia, Zecharias, Y. Y., Mekonnen, T., Ayele, L., Zekarias, A. Y., 2023, International Migration, Under review
• People on the Move in Times of Pandemic: How African Regional Policy Measures Aim at Protecting Migrants at the Horn of Africa, Zekarias, A. Y., 2021 Annual ISA RC 19 Conference on Drivers and Challenges of Social Policies: Global, Regional, National, and Local Perspectives, Fribourg, Switzerland
• Remittances as a Strategy of Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study from Remittance Recipient Households from Southern Ethiopia, Zekarias, A. Y., 2022 Annual ISA RC 19 Conference on Challenges to Social Policy in the Covid-19 and (Post) COVID-19 Recovery Period: Implications, Solutions, and Innovations, Vilnius, Lithuania
• A linguistic documentation of beekeeping in Kambaata, Treis, Y., Zecharias, Y. Y., Zekarias, A. Y., 29th Annual Conference of the Center for Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistic Research, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, https://hal.science/hal-03664292v1/file/Treis_et_al2022_Beekeeping_final.pdf