Mulugeta Tadesse

Spatial Data Scientist

Research team

Water data science > Water futures data and analytics

Areas of expertise

Modeling Data remote sensing computer programming

Mulugeta has worked for a diverse range of national, regional, and international institutions. These include IFPRI, FAO, Farm Africa, HYDROC GmbH, Riverside Technology Inc., the World Bank funded projects of NBI-ENTRO and NBI-NileSEC, EU and Germany government funded GIZ projects, World Bank funded Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation program, Italian government funded integrated rural development project, and various water resource planning and development projects for the Ethiopian government. Mulugeta designed and developed enterprise level and project based spatial databases and carried out spatial analysis and cartographic modeling aimed at providing solutions to different areas of water resource planning and development problems. He has primarily worked in the East African countries of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda. Mulugeta has been based at IWMI’s East Africa office in Addis Ababa since September 2023.

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IWMI measured water flow in the primary canal of the Amibara Irrigation Scheme using a current meter. Photo: Kirubel Gebreyesus/IWMI

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Water accounting insights to revitalize irrigation schemes in Ethiopia

IWMI used its water accounting approach to identify measures to revitalize the Amibara Irrigation Scheme — with a potential to modernize irrigation management far beyond Amibara ...

July 18, 2025