George Kwaku Ofosu is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on electoral politics, democratic accountability, election integrity, gender politics, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He also works on issues related to research design and transparency.
His research has been published or is forthcoming in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, and African Affairs. His article in American Political Science Review received the 2020 Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in 2019. His work has received support from the National Science Foundation, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the International Growth Center, the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and LSE STICERD.
He is a Democracy and Development Fellow at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, Member of Evidence in Governance and Politics, an Academic Mentor for the Afrobarometer Emerging Scholars Program, and a Board Member of the LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. He has held research fellowships at Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2015–2016), and Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2009–2010). He has also consulted for the National Democratic Institute on domestic election observation and parallel vote tabulations in Malawi (2009), Nigeria (2011), and Guinea (2015).
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science | University of California, Los Angeles | June 2017
M.A. in Political Science | University of California, Los Angeles | June 2014
University of Ghana, Legon | B.A in Philosophy and Religion | 2006
Interests
Democratic Accountability | Electoral Integrity | African Politics | Political Representation| Experimental Methods/Research Design