Yewondwossen Tesfaye Gemechu

I am currently working at CCR/Hanken as the coordinator for COPAFEU project. Funded by the the European Union, COPAFEU aims to coproduce collaborative knowledge between African and European HEIs through an innovative Enhanced Service Learning approach. COPAFEU has 8 partner HEIs from Africa and 2 from Europe. 

In my PhD – ”Neoliberalism in Everyday Governmentality” (2021), I was able to show how contemporary global instruments of business governance reproduce inter-nation and inter-continental hegemonic approaches that trickle down to multiple sectors. My current post-doc research further develops my PhD findings in the education sector with a primary focus on the problematics of the institutional, policy and political paradigms that create hindrance to the development of joint business courses/curricula/programs between inter-nation and inter-continental HEIs.

My key fields of research include: Governmentality, global politics and business governance, Education policies and strategies, qualitative methodology, discourse and narrative approaches: