Vibeke Wang is a Research Director and Senior Researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (hyperlink to: https://www.cmi.no/staff/vibeke-wang) She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from the University of Bergen.
Wang has been involved in multiple projects funded by the Research Council of Norway. Currently she is the Principal Investigator of the FRIPRO funded research project The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence
She has co-edited special issues in journals and authored/co-authored numerous book chapters and articles. Her research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, International Political Science Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, Political Studies, Politics & Gender, and Social Politics.