01 / ACADEMIC PROFILE
Scholarship across economics and global affairs.
International economics, finance, geopolitics, public policy and the connections between markets and security.
Academic biography
Dr Joseph Yaw Abodakpi is an Assistant Professor (Adiunkt) in the Department of International Economics (Katedra Międzynarodowych Stosunków Gospodarczych), Institute of Economics, Krakow University of Economics, Poland. He was previously associated with the Department of Finance and Financial Policy in the Institute of Finance. His research lies at the intersection of international finance, emerging-market development, political economy, monetary economics, geopolitics and defence economics.
He earned a Master of Economics from the Krakow University of Economics in 2012, completed doctoral studies at its Faculty of Finance and Law in 2015, and defended a doctoral dissertation in Finance on 3 December 2024. The dissertation, Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Sector Development and Economic Growth in the Republic of Ghana, was supervised by Professor Stanisław Owsiak. He was a Visiting Scholar at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, during 2020–2021.
Research interests include monetary policy; financial markets and emerging economies; international finance and trade; foreign direct investment; global capital inflows; development economics; national security; geopolitics; and the economic dimensions of defence-industrial capability. He has also been affiliated with the university’s Centre for Security Studies. His current work also addresses sovereign wealth funds, long-term investing, asset allocation, strategic minerals and investment screening.
ACADEMIC ROLES
Research, service and leadership.
NATO STO SAS-220
Leadership of Syndicate 2 on Acquisition and Lifecycle Sustainment in a research activity on the NATO-wide Defence and Technological Industrial Base.
Research Coordinator — DESGRI
Defence Economics and Geoeconomics Research Initiative at the Krakow University of Economics.
Student research and teaching service
Supervisor of the student scientific circle at the Department of Finance and Financial Policy, KUE. Supervisor of industrial internships during 2020–2025.
Visiting Scholar — Clark University
Research and academic engagement in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Professional sector roles
One-year internship at Ghana's Ministry of Education; Senior Marketing Executive and Acting Managing Director with Ideas Publicity Ltd, a Ghana-based media and communications consulting company.
Grants, supervision and engagement
Recipient or participant in individual scientific grants and collaborative research funding, including a National Science Centre OPUS 16 group grant, as reported in the original university-linked profile. Additional grant applications and proposed fellowships are not represented as awarded funding.
Teaching and supervision extend from undergraduate and graduate programmes to postgraduate education at the Krakow School of Business, including International Economics, International Finance, global governance and geopolitical analysis. Details are provided in Teaching.
The author's continuing activity includes international research presentations, engagement in interdisciplinary curriculum development, and work with scientific initiatives linking economics, finance and security. See Academic activities.
The information above transfers and updates the substantive biography, appointments, grant statement, professional experience and supervisory activities from the original personal website. A source archive is also available in Original profile.