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Professor Anna-Riikka Kauppinen is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work explores the social networks, expertise, and capital flows in West Africa’s private sector. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2018. Anna-Riikka worked as a Research Associate of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, in the Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change (2018–2021). She is now an Assistant Professor with the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Pictet Chair in Finance and Development.