Dalaya is an Ethiopian political economist and strategist whose work critically engages with structural inequality, state power, and emancipatory development alternatives. With over fifteen years of experience, her analysis challenges neoliberal orthodoxy, exposing how capital accumulation reproduces marginalisation in the Global South. As a 2022 Asia Global Fellow, she investigated state-owned enterprises through a lens of socialist industrialisation. Dalaya is also the deputy principal of the Ethiopian Women Researchers Network (EWNET). Her publications on political settlements and late industrialisation centre class struggle, collective agency, and anti-imperialist frameworks. Rooted in Ethiopia’s developmental thinking, yet globally connected, Dalaya’s scholarship advances a radical vision of development that rejects technocratic fixes in favour of structural transformation and pan-African solidarity.