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Patrick Paul Walsh
B.A. (N.U.I.), M.A. (DUBL.), M.ECON.SC. (N.U.I.), Ph.D (L.S.E.).
Government of Ireland, Marie Curie and IZA Fellow
Biopic: Patrick Paul Walsh took up the Chair in International Development Studies in School of Politics and International Relations on July 1st 2007. He is currently Head of School. He received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During 1992-2007 he worked in Trinity College Dublin. He left Trinity College Dublin an Associate Professor, College Fellow and Dean of Social and Human Sciences. He was a Visiting Professor at K.U. Leuven during 1997-1999 and a Research Scholar in the Department of Economics, Harvard University, during the academic year 2002-2003. His professional activities include being Editor of the Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland and runs a related IRCHSS funded "Our Polestar is Truth" project based in the Long Room Hub in TCD. He is on the Standing Committee for Social Science in the European Science Foundation. He coordinates UCDs HEA-Irish Aid Programme of Strategic Cooperation 2007 – 2011. This Programme runs a flagship "Sandwich or Swedish Model" UCD Ph.D. in Global Human Development, among other things. He also chairs a TCD-UCD Masters in Development Practice that is part of a Global Network based at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. He is on the management committee of the UCD Geary Institute. Amongst other publications he has published in the Economic Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, and the Economics of Transition. His current research in East Africa concerns itself with micro studies of Human Development (Economic, Political and Social) where standard household data is married with data from clinical trials (Social), elections (Political) and industrial development agencies (Economic).