Cleo O’Brien-Udry

I am an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where I am also an affiliate at the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment. Previously, I was the postdoctoral fellow at the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. I recieved my PhD in political science from Yale in 2023. I study the international political economy of development and climate change.

My work has been published or accepted at journals such as International Studies Quarterly, World Development, and Review of International Organizations.