Erik Meyersson
Web Page: http://www.erikmeyersson.com/
Erik Meyersson is Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) in the Stockholm School of Economics and has been a regular presenter at AALIMS conferences since its conception. His research area spans political economics, development, and economic history, with a particular interest in the development consequences of Islamic political representation as well as policies to promote women's participation in the Muslim world. In 2011, Meyersson was awarded the Ragnar Söderberg Grant to finance further economics research in Turkey and the Middle East. In 2010-2011 he was a Postdoc at the London School of Economics. He got his PhD in economics in 2010 from the IIES at Stockholm University.