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.
Early life and education 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.
Career Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Project, Australia. He then taught at the University of Sydney as a Teaching Fellow before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Property Economics at the University of Technology Sydney.
Obeng-Odoom was Associate Professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformations in the Global South, 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) at the University of Turku.
Currently, Obeng-Odoom is Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Obeng-Odoom serves as an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.
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