Bamlak Fekadu

Bamlak Fekadu is a financial journalist.
Business research and editorial professional with experience in national finance journalism, enterprise strategy advising, and corporate operations in Ethiopia. Roles include business and finance journalist, market researcher, content writer, business analyst, and advocate for coffee exports.
I am a strategy and development finance professional specializing in market analysis, investment design, and inclusive economic growth in emerging markets. I bring a data-driven, cross-sector perspective to evaluating opportunities—. An institutional-grade AI domain expert applying rigorous editorial QA and financial reasoning to evaluate, audit, and improve large language models. Comfortable working independently and remotely across distributed, deadline-driven teams.

• Fact Verification & Source Validation: Years of cross-checking figures, quotes, and claims against primary sources before publication—directly applicable to grading factual accuracy and flagging hallucinations in AI-generated text.

• Structured Financial & Economic Reasoning: Analysis of corporate, banking, and macroeconomic data for business journalism and enterprise strategy work, applied to evaluating financial and quantitative reasoning in model outputs.

• Editorial Quality Assurance: Reviewed contributor submissions as associate editor for tone, accuracy, and consistency before publication—a direct parallel to rubric-based response grading.

• Clear Technical & Business Writing: Converts dense economic and operational information into accessible narratives for executive and general audiences.

• Emerging Markets & Ethiopian Business Context: Subject-matter depth in Ethiopian finance, banking, trade, and policy—a differentiated fit for domain-specific and regional AI evaluation needs.

• Remote, Self-Directed Work: Sustained freelance and cross-team collaborat