Dr. Menbere Workie Tiruneh

Dr. Menbere Workie Tiruneh, PhD, is associate professor of Finance for the Department of Business and Management at Webster Vienna Private University, and a part-time senior researcher and supervisor of PhD students at the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Before joining WVPU, Workie served for more than 10 years at City University of Seattle, European Graduate Programs. He also held a position of full professor of Economics and deputy chair of the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Economics and was full professor of Economics at the School of Business Management and City University of Seattle, European Graduate Programs.

Workie holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Munich in Germany and a PhD in Finance from the University of Economics in Slovakia, where he served as teaching assistant to Prof. Stephan Klasen. He graduated from the joint graduate program of Pittsburgh University and Vienna University of Technology in advanced studies in Professional Programs in Applied Economic and Finances. Following his inaugural public lectures (external imbalances and economic growth) in 2012, and approved both by the University’s Board and the Ministry of Education, Workie was inaugurated as a “Professor of Economics” by the president of the Slovak Republic in 2014.

Having studied both finance and economics, Workie has been engaged in research and endeavors to explore wide range of research topics focusing on the “finance of economics and the “economics of finance.” He has acted as principal investigator of nine projects and a co-investigator of two projects, most of which revolve around exploring business cycle phenomenon, the dynamics of income disparity, external imbalances, debt-growth nexus, capital flight and the labor market.