Adamseged (Adam) Abebe is an education specialist with interests in improving skills, tertiary education systems and youth employment. His research focuses on the role of education in ethnic conflicts and peacebuilding in East Africa, particularly on notions of nation-building and loss of hope following educational aspirations. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford. Adam is also the first Ethiopian Rhodes Scholar and one of two Global Rhodes Scholars chosen from countries around the world, which allows students from the 125 countries that had not been historically eligible for the Rhodes Scholarship. As a WBG-Africa Fellow, he is working with the Education Global Practice in East Africa providing support to in researching the use 3D printing in constructing school building and in the designing of education projects in line with the World Bank’s new evolution road map. Adam completed his first and second degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Public Health, along with a master’s in Non-Profit Management.