Jessica Johansson

Since 04/2021: Associate at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies

08/2020 - 03/2021: Project Manager at Kraftbyrån on the project Youth and Covid-19

09/2019 - 03/2020: Researcher at Center for Advanced Research and Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), field project in Ecuador

01/2019 - 09/2019: Research Fellow at the GIGA in the International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes (IDCAR) Network

03/2018 - 12/2018: Research Assistant at GIGA in the IDCAR Network and for the Global State Revenues and Expenditures (GSRE) Dataset

09/2017 - 01/2018: Intern at the Americas Department at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Government Offices of Sweden

10/2016 - 08/2017: Research Assistant at GIGA in the IDCAR Network

Education: M.A. of Science in Politics, Economics and Philosophy, University of Hamburg; B.A. of Science in Political Science at Uppsala University; Political Science and Latin American Studies at Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago

Shrinking civic spaces and covid-19

Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding

Civil and political rights

Business and human rights

Accountability and transparency