Joseph Asunka, ASA 2021 African Voices on African Issues

ASA 2021 Current Issue Plenary Lecturer: Joseph Asunka
African Voices on African Issues

Joseph Asunka is the CEO of Afrobarometer, starting his term from April 2021. He was previously Program Officer in the Global Development and Population program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where he managed a portfolio of grants that support efforts to increase transparency and accountability in fiscal governance and foster citizen participation to improve public services in developing countries.
Before joining Hewlett, Joseph was a lecturer in political science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught courses on African politics, political economy of development, research methods and data analysis. Prior to that, he was program officer at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, where his responsibilities included serving as data manager for Afrobarometer Network.
Joseph’s research interests include distributive politics, elections and electoral processes, and migration. He has published in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Modern African Studies, Research and Politics, Population Research and Policy Review, and Social Science and Medicine. Born in Ghana, Joseph holds first and second degrees in Statistics & Computer Science and Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon; and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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