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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Personal information Surname, First name Address MENSURO, Girma Kelboro Center for Development Research (ZEFa), University of Bonn, Walter-Flex- Str. 3, 53113, Bonn, Germany Telephone(s) Landline: Mobile: Fax Date of birth 23 April 1975 Nationality Gender or Ethiopian Male Work experience Occupation or position held Date From October 2013 to present Post-doc Researcher, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Name and address of employer ZEF, University of Bonn (address given above) Type of business or sector Research Date From October 2009 to September 2013 Occupation or position held Junior Researcher, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn and PhD Candidate, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Hohenheim Name and address of employer ZEF, University of Bonn (address given above) Type of business or sector Research Date From December 2002 to July 2009 Occupation or position held Lecturer and Vice Head Main activities and responsibilities Teaching and research on natural resource policy and law, integrated watershed management planning, conflict management, indigenous knowledge and participatory approaches to undergraduate students of natural resource management; action research on culture and forestry, agroforestry and energy-saving technologies; leading, supervising, guiding and decision-making on the human resource and financial management and income generation units (forestry operations, agriculture and wood utilization) Name and address of employer Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa University, P O Box 128, Shashemene, Ethiopia Type of business or sector Education Page 1/6 - Curriculum vitae of

2 Occupation or position held Forestry expert Main activities and responsibilities Date From October 1996 to November 2002 Studying, analyzing and planning for forest ecosystem management, farm/agroforestry, and soil and water conservation projects to rehabilitate degraded environment and improve of people's livelihoods Name and address of employer Commission for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Rehabilitation of Southern Administrative Region of Ethiopia (Co-SAERSAR), P O Box 925, Awassa, Ethiopia Type of business or sector Rural development Education and training Date From October 2009 to June 2013 Title of qualification awarded Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Agriculture (with Magna cum Laude) University of Hohenheim Stuttgart, Germany Title of qualification awarded Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Tropical Forestry Wageningen University P O Box HB Wageningen, The Netherlands Date From October 1992 to July 1996 Title of qualification awarded Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Forestry (with Distinction) Alemaya University of Agriculture P O Box 138 Dire Dawa Ethiopia Date September 2012 Type of qualification awarded Certificate in Environmental Governance African Good Governance Network, DAAD-supported association of Africans Educated in Germany Contact: Heike Martin, DAAD Section 412 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service Kennedyallee Bonn Postfach Bonn, Germany Date August 2012 Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Global Environments: Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World Global Environments Summer Academy, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, University of Munich Contact: Dr. Gary Martin Rachel Carson Center Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 418 D Munich, Germany gary.martin@carsoncenter.lmu.de Page 2/6 - Curriculum vitae of

3 Date 28 May 2 June 2012 Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Economy and Governance African Good Governance Network, DAAD-supported association of Africans Educated in Germany Contact: Heike Martin, DAAD Section 412 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service Kennedyallee Bonn Postfach Bonn, Germany Date 6-10 March 2012 Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Interstate Conflicts African Good Governance Network, DAAD-supported association of Africans Educated in Germany Contact: Heike Martin, DAAD Section 412 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service Kennedyallee Bonn Postfach Bonn, Germany Date January 2012 Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Intercultural Competence Center for Development Research Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) University of Bonn Walter-Flex-Str Bonn, Germany Date From July 2008 Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Forest Landscape Restoration in North-East Africa Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources Hawassa University P O Box 128 Shashemene, Ethiopia and Viikki Tropical Resources Institute Department of Forest Sciences P.O. Box 27 (Latokartanonkaari 7) FI University of Helsinki Finland Page 3/6 - Curriculum vitae of

4 Date 4-6 December 2007 Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Working Effectively at the Interface of Forest Science and Forest Policy Forestry Research Network for Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA) and IUFRO s Special Programme for Developing Countries IUFRO Headquarters Mariabrunn (BFW) Hauptstrasse 7 A-1140 Vienna, Austria Date From 20 September 2004 in Sweden and 9-18 March 2005 in South Africa Title of qualification awarded Certificate in Development of National Forest Policies and Strategies National Board of Forestry Skogsstyrelsen SE Jönköping, Sweden Personal skills and competences Mother tongue(s) Hadiya Other language(s) Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction English French German Spoken production A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 Basic A1 A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 Basic A2 (*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Basic Basic Social skills and competences - Good adaptability to multicultural environments, developed through long-term and short-term educational and experience sharing stays abroad - Good communication skills gained through my experience as a teacher, advisor and vice head of a university college - Team spirit, obtained through my experience of works in research teams and special task commissions Organizational skills and competences Computer skills and competences - Leadership I worked as a registrar, department head, and coordinator of departments with a total number of about 250 employees for five years - Good experience in project and team management - Good command of Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Power Point) - Good knowledge of SPSS application (through training and use for the PhD research data analysis) Page 4/6 - Curriculum vitae of

5 Additional information Publications - Girma, Kelboro Unraveling the parks and people dichotomy: local interests and conflicts in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Margraf Publishers. Weikersheim, Germany. ISBN: Girma Kelboro, Till Stellmacher and Volker Hoffmann (2013). Conservationists and Local People in Biodiversity Conservation: the Case of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities 9(1): Girma Kelboro and Till Stellmacher (2012). Contesting the National Park theorem? Governance and land use in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. ZEF Working Paper 104. Bonn, Germany. - Mesele Negash and Girma Kelboro (2014). Effects of socioeconomic status and food consumption pattern on household energy uses: Implications to forest resources degradation around Wondo Genet Catchments, south-central Ethiopia. East African Social Science Research Review 30(1): xxxx. (forthcoming) - Girma Kelboro & Till Stellmacher. Protected areas as contested spaces: Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia, between 'local people', the state, and NGO engagement. Journal of Environmental Management. (peer-reviewed positively) Presentations in conferences and workshops - Girma Kelboro (2012). Biodiversity conservation and livelihood conflicts in Africa: the case of protected area governance in Ethiopia. Paper presented in the African Good Governance Network Summit on Environmental Governance, September Freiburg, Germany. - Girma Kelboro (2012). Governance of Protected Areas in Ethiopia: the Case of Nech Sar National Park. A paper presented in Research Café of Global Environments Summer Academy, 16 August Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. - Girma Kelboro (2012). Working at the people-wildlife interface in East Africa: discourses and dilemmas in governing protected areas in Ethiopia. Planet under Pressure 2012: New Knowledge towards Solutions, March 2012, London, UK. (poster) - Girma Kelboro, Till Stellmacher and Volker Hoffmann (2012). Bridging the researcher-people knowledge gap in biodiversity conservation: the case of Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Tropentag 2012, September 19-21, Göttingen, Germany. (poster) - Girma Kelboro and Till Stellmacher (2011). Protected area governance: lessons learned from NGO endeavours in Nech Sar national park, Southern Ethiopia. Tropentag 2011, October 5-7, Bonn, Germany. (poster) - Girma Kelboro (2006). The basis for community-based woodland resource management interventions in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. A paper presented in the DAAD Workshop (June 8-15), Wondo Genet College of Forestry & Natural Resources, Ethiopia. Page 5/6 - Curriculum vitae of

6 - Girma Kelboro (2005). Intrinsic worth and dilemma of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and disciplinary approaches in education and research. In: Proceedings of a seminar organized by Center for Environment and Society, Hawassa University (January 14-15, 2005), Awassa, Ethiopia. (paper) - Girma Kelboro (2004). Community-based Nature Conservation, Ecotourism, and Conflict Management. In a workshop organized by Tourism and Transport Bureau in Cooperation with SNV in Southern Region of Ethiopia Yirgalem, Nov. 29 Dec. 1, (paper) Professional membership - African Good Governance Network - African Forest Forum - Ethiopian Forestry Society Award - DAAD scholarship award in 2009 for PhD study in Germany - University Fellowships award in 1998 for MSc study in the Netherlands - Gold medal award in 1996 for an outstanding academic record at graduation with a BSc degree in Forestry from Alemaya University of Agriculture, Ethiopia References - Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Volker Hoffmann Agricultural Communication and Extension (430a) Schloss, Museumsflügel, Stuttgart, Germany Volker.Hoffmann@unihohenheim.de - Dr. Till Stellmacher Senior Researcher Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Walter-Flex-Str. 3, Bonn, Germany t.stellmacher@uni-bonn.de Tel. +49 (0) 228 / Dr. Gary Martin Director of Global Diversity Foundation, and Global Environments Summer Academy Rachel Carson Center Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 418, D Munich, Germany gary@global-diversity.org Page 6/6 - Curriculum vitae of