Gashaw Mekkonnen is the Senior Operational Research Analyst for the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning. He received his BA degree in Sociology and Social Administration and a Master of Science in Demography from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He worked in various capacities for different colleges and universities. He was a lecturer and researcher at the Demographic Training and Research Center of Addis Ababa University from January 2001 to March 2005; he served as the center's coordinator for two years. He served as a lecturer of sociology and also a registrar at the Defense College of Health Sciences in Ethiopia for nearly three years (06/1998 to 12/2000). He worked for the Jimma Institute of Health Sciences (now named Jimma University) for over eight years, offering various courses and participating in many community-based research undertakings. He carried out many quantitative and qualitative research projects and provided technical advisory/consultancy and training services to stakeholders. Recently, He worked as a research assistant for the Office of Research and Evaluation at the City Colleges of Chicago.
