Jessica Johansson
Associate
Short CV
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
Current Research
Shrinking civic spaces and covid-19
Authoritarianism and democratic backsliding
Civil and political rights
Business and human rights
Accountability and transparency
Countries and Regions
International focus
Latin America
Ecuador