김은경은 2017년부터 한국외국어대학교 아프리카연구소 조교수로 재직하고 있다. 한국아프리카학회 학술이사이며 한국외국어대학교 아프리카연구소가 발간하는 Asian Journal of African Studies의 부편집장이기도 하다. 2016년 미국 캘리포니아주립대-로스엔젤레스에서 박사학위를 취득하였으며, 같은 해 벤추라칼리지에서 강의를 진행했다. 관심 연구 분야는 아프리카의 선거, 정당, 의회 등 민주주의 정치제도 및 정치행태이며, 아프리카 정치에 영향을 미치는 정치경제적 균열(cleavages)의 다양한 양상을 비교연구한다. 대표 논문으로는 The winning party platform: Voter perceptions of party positions and voting in urban Kenya (2021), Party strategy in multidimensional competition in Africa: The example of Zambia (2017) 등이 있다.

Eun Kyung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of African Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Korea. She is also serving as a Research Committee Director of Korean Association of African Studies (KAAS) and an associate editor for the Asian Journal of African Studies (AJAS). Before she joined HUFS, she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles in 2016 and taught at Ventura College in Ventura, CA. Her research and teaching interests include African politics, political economy, and democratic consolidation within the subfields of comparative politics and international relations. Her current works chiefly focus on party competition and policy choice in African democracies where economic cleavages in electoral competition become more important. She has conducted field research in Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya, and traveled around cities and villages in some other African countries for various reasons.