Dr. Victor Osei Kwadwo is a governance and institutional development specialist with extensive experience researching and working in urban planning, multilevel governance, public policy and economics. Victor holds a PhD in Economics and Governance from UNU-MERIT, and currently, as a lecturer, he coordinates the MSc in Public Policy course at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. His current research focuses on urban governance. Specifically, he explores how inter-local government cooperation can leverage developmental issues amidst rapid urbanization. Based on his research, he has made publications in reputable journals and non-academic platforms, including World Development, Urban Affairs Review, Local Government Studies, Journal of European Integration, Impakter, and The Conversation. Victor has been awarded Maastricht University’s prestigious GSBE fellowship (2023-2027), and he also holds the Young Scholar Award from the European Urban Research Association (EURA) in 2017 for producing the best paper on urban governance. Outside academia, he has worked in the field of governance in six different countries, including Italy, the Netherlands, Tanzania, Zambia, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and recently, Central Asia as a researcher and as an urban governance consultant. In 2020, he worked at the World Bank as an African fellow and currently as a governance consultant assessing Policies, Institutions and Regulations (PIR) for efficient service delivery. Victor has also worked as a Development Planning Officer at the Accra Metropolitan and Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assemblies in Ghana and has been engaged as a consultant with several organizations, including the World Bank (USA), Castalia (USA), the Millennium Villages Project (Ghana), Center for Democratic Governance (Ghana), PSS Urbania (Ghana) and KCITY (Italy).

	Selected publications by Victor Osei Kwadwo
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Vincent, Rose & Victor Osei Kwadwo, 2022, Spatial interdependence and spillovers of fiscal grants in Benin: Static and dynamic diffusions, World Development, 158, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106006, More information
Frimpong Boamah, Emmanuel, Vanessa Watson, Clifford Amoako, Wes Grooms, Davina Osei, Victor Osei Kwadwo, Andy Bonaventure Nyamekye, Kahad Adamu & Gabriel K. Appiah (eds.), 2021, Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning?: A Sub-Saharan Africa Perspective, Journal of the American Planning Association: 1-15, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2021.1987969, More information
Osei Kwadwo, Victor & Tatiana Skripka, 2021, Metropolitan governance and environmental outcomes: does inter-municipal cooperation make a difference?, Local Government Studies: 1-21, More information
Bedea, Claudia & Victor Osei Kwadwo, 2020, Opportunistic Sub-Regionalism: The dialectics of EU- Central-Eastern European relations, Journal of European Integration, 43: 385-402, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2020.1776271, More information
Hajzeri, Arlinda & Victor Osei Kwadwo (eds.), 2019, Investigating integration of edible plants in urban open spaces: Evaluation of policy challenges and successes of implementation, Land Use Policy, 84: 43-48, More information
Osei Kwadwo, Victor & Obaa Akua Konadu, 2019, Can Ghana Afford the Sustainable Development Goal on Education?, African Education Review, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2018.1557532, More information
Osei Kwadwo, Victor & E Boadi Mensah (eds.), 2016, District Creation In Ghana:: A Political Expedience Or Poverty Alleviation Mechanism?, ImaniGhana, More information
Adei, D, Victor Osei Kwadwo & S.K Diko, 2012, An Assessment of the Kwabre District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana, Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, 4(5): 372-382
Book chapters
Borgomeo, Edoardo, Claire Chase, Nicolas Salazar Godoy & Victor Osei Kwadwo, 2023, Improving Governance: Policy, Institutions, Regulations and Financing, in: Borgomeo, Eduardo; Chase, Claire; Salazar Godoy, Nicolas; Osei Kwadwo, Victor, Rising from the Depths: Water Security and Fragility in South Sudan, World Bank, Washington, DC, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1943-8, More information
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Konte, Maty, Victor Osei Kwadwo & Tatenda Zinyemba, 2019, Women's political and reproductive health empowerment in Africa: A literature review, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-044
Chongcharoentanawat, Patima, Kaleab Haile, Bart Kleine Deters, Tamara A. Kool & Victor Osei Kwadwo, 2016, The affordability of the Sustainable Development Goals: A myth or reality?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2016-027
Research reports
Osei Kwadwo, Victor & Emmanuel Buadi Mensah, 2016, District creation in Ghana: A political expedience or poverty alleviation mechanism?, Imani Center for Policy and Education, More information
Theses
Osei Kwadwo, Victor, 2022, Inter-Municipal Cooperation and Environmental Outcomes Impact, drivers, and incentives, PhD dissertation Maastricht University