Abiyot is Climate Policy and Research Lead for the WRI Africa office based in Ethiopia. He leads and manage Climate Resilient Green Economy policy research works and strategies, manage partner relationships with domestic and international entities supporting the programs and projects. He has over 8 years of experience in policy, research and development planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the national development plans.

He previously worked for the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperations in areas of development planning and research as well as monitoring and evaluation of the plan implementations. After this, he also worked for the National Planning and Development Commission as Research and Economic Modeler as well as Coordinator for the Perspective Plan Preparation and Research Directorate.

Abiyot has Joint European Masters degree in System Dynamics from the New University of Lisbon, the University of Bergen as well as Masters in Business Administration from Radboud University. He also has Master's degree in Applied Economic Modelling and Forecasting from Addis Ababa University and bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics from Haramaya University.