Fredrik M Sjoberg

Adjunct Instructor

Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality

Education
  • BA, Helsinki University
  • MPhil, London School of Economic
  • PHD, Uppsala University
Contact Info

Fredrik Sjoberg is a Brooklyn-based tech startup founder and experienced hotel operator. He has developed and managed boutique hotels as well as operated a family-owned hotel group in Scandinavia. 

Dr. Sjoberg is also an award winning behavioral social scientist with publications in a range of peer-reviewed journals. He has completed postdoctoral work at New York University (2011-2012) and at Columbia University (2012-2013). He has a PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University (2011), a MPhil degree in Political Science from London School of Economics (LSE) (2009). In 2008-2008 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University.

From 2013 to 2019 he worked as a senior data scientist at the World Bank, where he conducted research on digital transformation of public services.

Nov 01 2017

A Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Experiment on the World's Largest Participatory Budgeting Vote in Brazil

By British Journal of Political Science
Aug 11 2017

The Effect of Bureaucratic Responsiveness on Citizen Participation

By Public Administration Review
Mar 01 2014

Autocratic Adaptation: The Strategic Use of Transparency and The Persistence of Election Fraud

By Electoral Studies