Adane Tadesse is a consultant, researcher and lecturer from Ethiopia. Adane has a Master’s degree in International Relations, a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations, and a BEd in History from Addis Ababa University. He is currently based at Addis Ababa University where he serves as a lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Addis Ababa University (AAU), and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Forced Displacement and Migration Studies. Adane is a former Southern Voice Network for Peace building scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, and visiting doctoral researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Roskilde University in Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, he is a Visiting Libra Scholar at the University of Maine, United States where he closely works with Department of Political Science and Climate Change Institute.

Adane has an extensive research and consultancy experience focusing on climate change, human mobility and peace building in the Horn of Africa. Previously, Adane worked as worked as a climate mobility consultant with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung African Migration Policy Center (FES-AMPC) He also a peace building consultant with the Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD). Recently, Adane co-published a policy paper titled ‘Beyond Crisis: Climate mobility dynamics in Central Sahel, East Africa and the Horn of Africa’. His paper and policy brief on the security crisis in the Horn of Africa particularly in Ethiopia are published on Africa Program Policy Briefs of the Wilson Center. Adane also co-authored a book chapter on Routledge publication titled ‘the Handbook of Regional Resolution Initiatives in the Global South’. As part of an international project ‘Governing Climate Mobility’ (2019-2024), Adane worked as a doctoral researcher fellow, examining the interaction between climate change, migration and governance in Ethiopia. He also contributed his work on child migration and climate change for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) publication on Child Migration in Ethiopia.