Prof. Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Franklin Obeng-Odoom is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Franklin Obeng-Odoom is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Obeng-Odoom's research interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources and the environment, fields in which he has published six sole-authored books, including Global Migration Beyond Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022), The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Toronto Press, 2021), and Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), a winner of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Joan Robinson Best Book Prize.

Obeng-Odoom is the Global South Editor of Housing Studies, Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics , and Series Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.

Dr Obeng-Odoom is one of the world's leading social scientists. He is an Inaugural International Science Council World Social Science Fellow. He has been elected to the Fellowship of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, becoming the youngest Fellow of the oldest learned society in postcolonial Africa. He has recently been named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences , an esteem conferred on only 1% of social scientists in the world.