Professor Kevin O'Rourke FBA

Kevin O'Rourke is a Directeur de Recherche at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris. He was previously the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford and the Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin, Sciences Po Paris and Trinity College Dublin. He has served as an editor of the European Review of Economic History, as an editorial board member of the Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review and World Politics, as Vice President of the Economic History Association, as a Trustee of the Cliometric Society, and as President of the European Historical Economics Society. Kevin's research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics, particularly international trade. He has written extensively on the history of globalisation.