Stefan Ouma

Dr. Ouma is Professor and Chair of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography at Universität Bayreuth. Previously, he worked as postdoctoral scholar at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He is a member of the Editorial Collective of Antipode and also part of the Advisory Board of Critical African Studies and Environment and Planning A. Dr. Ouma’s research centers on the political economy and ecology of global supply chains, the financialization of land and agriculture, the digital transformation of labor, and on “African Futures.” His research experience is in both the Global South (West and East Africa) and the Global North (Germany, New Zealand), and cultivates a global-relational perspective on geographically uneven development processes. Dr. Ouma holds a Bachelor of Art in Human Geography from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a Master of Art in African Development Studies from Bayreuth University, as well as a PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Frankfurt.