Franklin Obeng-Odoom | |
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Born | 1981 Cape Coast, Ghana |
Occupation | Professor and author |
Nationality | Ghanaian-Australian |
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Notable awards | Joan Robinson Prize 2021 |
Franklin Obeng-Odoom is a Ghanaian-Australian political economist, specialising in urban and regional economics, political economy of development, stratification economics, and the political economy of natural resources. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences. [1]
Obeng-Odoom was born in Ghana. He completed his bachelor's degree in land economy in Ghana before studying urban economic development in England and political economy in Australia. [2]
Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Project, Australia. [3] He then taught at the University of Sydney as a Teaching Fellow [3] before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Property Economics at the University of Technology Sydney. [3]
Obeng-Odoom was Associate Professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformations in the Global South, [4] at Global Development Studies and the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in Finland. In 2021, he became a Docent in Sociology (Urban and Economic Sociology) [4] at the University of Turku. [5]
Currently, Obeng-Odoom is Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. [5] Obeng-Odoom serves as an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy. [6]