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Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Obeng-Odoom in 2020
Born	1981 Cape Coast, Ghana
Occupation	Professor and author
Nationality	Ghanaian-Australian
Subject	Political Economy Urban Economic Development Urban & Economic Sociology Land Economy

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.

Obeng-Odoom is a member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences. ^[1]

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. ^[2]

From 2008-2009, Obeng-Odoom was a researcher at Global Poverty Projects, Australia. ^[3] He then taught at the University of Sydney from 2010 to 2011 ^[3] before becoming a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Technology Sydney from 2012 to 2015. ^[3]

From 2018 until July 8, 2023 Obeng-Odoom was an associate professor of Social Sustainability of Urban Transformation in the Global Department Studies, ^[4] at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in Finland. In 2021, he became a Docent in Sociology (Urban and Economic Sociology) ^[4] at the University of Turku. ^[5]

As of 2024, Obeng-Odoom is a Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. ^[5] He previously taught at several universities in Australia. ^[1]

Obeng-Odoom is an Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics, Editor Emeritus of African Review of Economics and Finance and Series Editor of Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.^{[ citation needed]}

• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2015). "Africa: On the rise, but to where?". Forum for Social Economics. 44 (3): 234–250. doi: 10.1080/07360932.2014.955040.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2011). "The Informal Sector in Ghana Under Siege". Journal of Developing Societies. 27 (3/4): 355–392. doi: 10.1177/0169796X1102700406.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2023). "Rethinking Development Economics: Problems and Prospects of Georgist Political Economy". Review of Political Economy. 35 (1): 316-333. doi: 10.1080/09538259.2021.1928334.

• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2016). Reconstructing urban economics: towards a political economy of the built environment. London: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN  978-1-78360-659-7. OCLC  936144105. ^[6]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2021). The commons in an age of uncertainty: decolonizing nature, economy, and society. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN  978-1-4875-0176-1. OCLC  1145338068. ^[7]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2022). Global migration beyond limits: ecology, economics, and political economy. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN  978-0-19-886718-0. OCLC  1261879995. ^[8]
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2020). Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Cambridge studies in stratification economics. Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  978-1-108-49199-0.
• Obeng-Odoom, Franklin (2014). Oiling the urban economy: land, labour, capital, and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Routledge studies in international real estate. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN  978-0-415-74409-6. ^{[9] [10]}