Dr. Amare is an assistant professor at Addis Ababa University, Department of Management. He has over 16 years of experience in management teaching and consulting various public and private organizations. Before joining Addis Ababa University, Dr. Amare worked as director of Human Resource Management and Development at Arba Minch University. Dr Amare earned his Ph.D. in Commerce specializing in Entrepreneurship and MSMEs from Mangalore University and is currently the head of Academic Programs and Teaching Learning Support Unit for the College of Business and Economics. He has research articles published in international journals. Dr Amare was the Deputy Director of Addis Ababa University’s Strategic Planning Office and the head of the Executives Idea Exchange forum of Addis Ababa University, which was a quarterly forum that brought policymakers and researchers together. Currently, he won an Early-Career Research Fellowship at the University of Lagos under the ARUA-Carnegie ECR 2023 scheme.