Franklin Obeng-Odoom

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 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) 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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