Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Franklin Obeng-Odoom is an urban researcher and a professor. He is currently Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He previously taught at several universities in Australia.

Obeng-Odoom is a member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences.

Early life
Franklin Obeng-Odoom was born in Ghana, His grandfather was a post colonial judge and also worked as a choirmaster and organist in the Methodist Church. As a school boy Obeng-Odoom used to sell mixed crops at the local market while studying in a school. He completed his bachelor degree in land economy and went abroad for higher education.

Education

 * PHD in Political Economy (University of Sydney, Australia)
 * MSC in Development and Planning: Urban Economic Development (University of London, United Kingdom)
 * BSC in Land Economy (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana)

Appointments

 * 2008-2009: Researcher, Global Poverty Projects, Australia
 * 2010-2011: Teacher, University of Sydney, Australia
 * 2012-2015: Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
 * 2015: Visiting Research Fellow, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, Switzerland
 * 2016: Visiting Research Fellow, Centre of Australian Studies, Yonsei University, Korea
 * 2017-2018: Director of Higher Degree Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
 * 2018-July 8, 2023: Associate Professor, Social Sustainability of Urban Transformation in Global Department Studies, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, Helsinki, Finland
 * 2021-Present: Docent in Sociology (Urban and Economic Sociology) University of Turku, Finland

Publications:
Obeng-Odoom is an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics, Editor of African Review of Economics and Finance and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.

He has published more than 20 articles on Ghana and political economy.

Books

 * Reconstructing Urban Economics
 * The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty
 * Global Migration beyond Limits
 * Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
 * Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi
 * Ghana
 * Reconstructing Urban Economics: Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment