Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen

Ina Lyftingsmo Kristiansen is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, specializing in comparative politics and autocratic regimes. Her research focuses on elite dynamics, bureaucratic politics in autocracies, and regime change through quantitative methods.

• Key Research Areas: Autocratization, Gulf monarchies, Northeast Asia, political elite data collection
• Courses Taught: STV1020 (Political Analysis), STV2350 (Autocratic Politics), STV4030A (Digital Data in Political Science), STV4550 (Topics in Autocratic Politics)
• Education: MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies (Oslo), BA in Comparative Politics (Bergen), International Relations and Korean studies (Ewha Womans University)
• Skills: Proficient in R, Norwegian (Native), English (Fluent), Korean (B2), Arabic (B2), French (B1)

Her publications address competency dynamics in autocratic cabinets and datasets on government social profiles. She contributes to the Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) research group.