Daniel Ofoe Chachu

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Political Economy and Development chair of the Institute of Political Science and a past visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Zurich. I am also associated with the University Research Priority Program (URPP) on "Equality of Opportunity" which studies economic, political and social changes that trigger different dimensions of inequality within society. 

I studied at the University of Ghana and the Centre for Development Economics of Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. I hold a PhD in Development Economics from a collaborative PhD Programme between the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) based in Helsinki, Finland and the University of Ghana. My research interests are broadly situated within the field of Political Economy and are at the intersection of Natural Resource Economics, Institutional Economics and Public Economics. 

Prior to starting a PhD, I worked across West Africa with an economic and social development research and advocacy think-tank from 2004 to 2011. Between 2011 and early 2016, I worked within the United Nations (ILO) community in various capacities, particularly in the area of monitoring and evaluation of child development and community livelihoods projects in West Africa. In 2020, I held a North-South Mobility fellowship, visiting with the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich.