Derek Hutcheson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly of the post-Soviet region, and on the electoral rights of transnational citizens. Prior to working in Sweden, he was head of European Studies at University College Dublin from 2006 to 2013 and an ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University (2002-05). In association with his involvement in the Global Citizenship Observatory (formerly EUDO-Citizenship), he was also invited to spend several months at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence as an EU Research Fellow in 2016.