Dr. Mahmud Yesuf is Associate Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. His research focuses on development economics, natural resource and environmental economics, and applied microeconometrics, with particular emphasis on smallholder agriculture, food security, climate change, sustainable land management and behavioural responses to risk in developing countries. He has extensive international research and teaching experience and has worked on projects with the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Africa.
More recently, his research has expanded to gender and the care economy. He is part of American University’s gender-economics research community and has contributed to work examining how care systems shape economic opportunities and well-being in the Global South. In 2026, he co-edited with Mieke Meurs a special themed section of the International Journal of Care and Caring on care economies in the Global South. His work brings together rigorous applied microeconomic analysis with policy questions concerning poverty, livelihoods, gender, environmental sustainability and development.