Francesca Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian political scientist currently working as a professor at the University of Oslo.
Jensenius completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Oslo in 2005, studying for a bachelor's in arts and the Hindi language.
[1] Her doctoral work was completed at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied electoral quotas for scheduled castes in India.
[1] In 2017, Jensenius published Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India (Oxford University Press), for which she won the Nils Klim Prize in 2018.
[3] Her research work has since examined the economic agency of women, political representation, and legal regimes in comparative context.