Kevin O'Rourke

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke is a Directeur de Recherche at the 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 CEPR. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and NYU Abu Dhabi. He is a Fellow of the Cliometric Society and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark. He has served inter alia as Trustee and President of the European Historical Economics Society, Editor of the European Review of Economic History, Vice President of the Economic History Association, Programme Director of the CEPR’s Economic History programme, and Senior Editor of Economic Policy. Kevin's research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics, particularly international trade. He has written extensively on the history of globalization and deglobalization, and his Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) won the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in economics. Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, co-authored with Ronald Findlay, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007. Une Brève Histoire du Brexit was published by Odile Jacob in 2018, and appeared in English as A Short History of Brexit (Penguin, 2019). In his spare time, Kevin serves as a municipal counsellor in St Pierre d'Entremont, a small mountain village in France.