Anastassia Obydenkova

Anastassia Obydenkova is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and an Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

Previously, she was an associate professor at Uppsala University (Sweden) and a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She has also been awarded research fellowships at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard Universities.

Her research expertise includes political institutions and regimes, sustainable development, environmental politics, federalism and decentralization, international organizations, comparative regionalism, regional development banks, and historical legacies with an area focus on Eurasia and China. She has published various books and articles on these topics. She welcomes PhD students interested in these topics.