Political scientist with comprehensive experience from research and Country of Origin reports and documents assessments. Research experience on political economy, opposition and political parties, political rights, democratic institutionalisation, NGOs. Expert on human and political rights abuse, political persecution, LGBT persecution, risk of return and of brutal and degrading treatment and torture.
Addiction/drugs/drug policy, Caste discrimination or persecution, Child soldiers, Coercive population control, Deportees/criminal deportees, Disability, Document Authentication, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Ex-combatant reintegration, Female genital mutilation/circumcision/FGC, Forced conscription, Forced marriag, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, HIV/AIDS, Journalist persecution, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Mental illness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Prison conditions, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sexual abuse/assault, Specialized medical services, Sufficiency of protection, Torture, Trafficking, Tribal discrimination or persecution, Violence against children/child abuse, Ethno-nationalism, secessionist groups
Experience since 2017, 250+ expert reports and around 40 document assessment reports (as of early 2025)
Inge Amundsen (2024): Protests in Kenya and Uganda highlight corruption at the top - but political elites don’t give in without a fight. The Conversation, 31 July 2024.
Catarina Antunes Gomes, Cesaltina Abreu, Margareth Nangacovie and Inge Amundsen (2023): Subverting the Constitution and Curtailing Civil Society. Angola’s New Law on NGOs. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2023: 2).
Inge Amundsen (2022): Angola: Religion and repression. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, CMI Working Paper 2022: 1).
Inge Amundsen, Cesaltina Abreu & Catarina Gomes (2021): Human rights in Angola. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Update March 2021).
Inge Amundsen (ed.) (2019): Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers.
Emmanuel Oladipo Ojo, Vaclav Prusa, Inge Amundsen (2019): Congenitally Conjoined and Inseparable: Politics and Corruption in Nigeria. In: Inge Amundsen (ed.) 2019.
Inge Amundsen (2018): Mujib dynasty retains control in Bangladesh. East Asia Forum, 10 August 2018. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
Inge Amundsen (2018): The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community. East Asia Forum, 23 March 2018. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
Inge Amundsen (2018): Democracy decaying in Bangladesh. East Asia Forum, 6 March 2018. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
Inge Amundsen (2017): Nigeria: Defying the Resource Curse. Chapter 1 (pp. 17-27) in Aled Williams and Philippe le Billon (Eds), Corruption, Natural Resources and Development. From Resource Curse to Political Ecology. Cheltenham/UK, 2017, Edward Elgar Publ.
Inge Amundsen (2016): Democratic Dynasties? Internal party democracy in Bangladesh. Party Politics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 49-58.
Inge Amundsen and Happy Kayuni (eds.) (2016): Women in Politics in Malawi. Bergen and Zomba, 2016, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Department of Political and Administrative Studies (PAS).
Inge Amundsen (2014): Drowning in Oil. Angola and the Resource Curse. Comparative Politics, vol. 46, no.2, January 2014, pp. 169-189.
Inge Amundsen (2014): 'Pay up and off you go!' Buying political positions in Bangladesh. Book chapter 11 (pp 140-147) in T. Søreide and A. Williams (eds.): Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges. Cheltenham/UK and Northampton/MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing.