anna.persson@pol.gu.se

Anna Persson is associate professor and senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. She is also a member of the management collegium of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute. She holds her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Gothenburg, and has a Master’s degree in Political Science from Lund University and McGill University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. In the spring of 2021, she added to her competence the degree of Master of Science with a major in Journalism with Specialization Investigative Journalism from the University of Gothenburg. She has previously been a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at UCLA and at the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School.

Uganda, Kenya, Corruption, Policy Reform, Government/Governance, Democracy, Autocracy