The Deputy Director of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg. Prior to turning to academia, Anna was a Member of Parliament in the German National Parliament (2002- 2009) and later worked in Sudan for two years.

She received her PhD in 2015 from Humboldt University (Berlin) with a thesis on United Nation’s electoral assistance. Anna Lührmann holds a M.A. degree in “Research Training in Social Sciences” from Humboldt University (Berlin), a M.Sc. degree in Gender and Peace Studies from Ahfad University (Sudan) and a B.A. in Political Sciences from FernUniversität Hagen (Germany).

She served as a consultant for UNDP, the World Bank and others. Her research has been published among others in Electoral Studies, International Political Science Review and the Journal of Democracy.