Professor Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

MA, PhD, MRIA

Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin (from 2000 to 2011)
College Lecturer (till 1997) then Statutory Lecturer, Department of Economics, University College Dublin (from 1992 to 2000)
Assistant Professor, Columbia University, USA (from 1989 to 1992)
Postgraduate, Harvard University (from 1984 to 1989)
Undergraduate, Trinity College Dublin (from 1980 to 1984)

(with Stephen Broadberry, ed.),The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, 2 vols (CUP: Cambridge, 2010)
(with Timothy J. Hatton and Alan M. Taylor, eds), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007)
(with Ronald Findlay) Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007)
(with Jeffrey G. Williamson), Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999)

Chaire W.J. Ganshof Van Der Meersch Lecture, Institute for European Affairs, Université Libre de Bruxelles (from 2013)
Trusteeship of the Cliometric Society (from 2013)
Programme Director, Economic History Programme, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Associate Member, Nuffield College (from 2012)
Vice President, Economic History Association (from 2011 to 2012)
Member, Scientific Council, Bruegel (from 2012)
Sir John Hicks Lecture in Economic and Social History, All Souls College, Oxford (2011)
Member of the Royal Irish Academy (from 2009)
President, European Historical Economics Society (from 2009 to 2011)
Editorial Board Member, Economic History Review
Editorial Board Member, World Politics
Editor, European Review of Economic History (from 2003 to 2007)
Trustee, European Historical Economics Society (from 1996-2006, and from 2011)
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Associate, IIIS, Trinity College Dublin

ERC Advanced Investigator Grant to work on 'Trade and the Great Depression in a Long Run Perspective' (from 2010)
Collaborative Research Project HI-POD: Historical Patterns of Development and Underdevelopment: Origins and Persistence of the Great Divergence (from 2008 to 2012)
Globalization and Growth: Lessons from British Trade Statistics, NSF Award SES-0851158 (with David Jacks, Simon Fraser, and Alan M. Taylor, UC Davis)
Co-ordinator (with Stephen Broadberry) of Research Training Network Proposal FP6- 512439, Unifying the European Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European Development
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship (also in 2003-4) (from 2007 to 2008)
Association of American Publishers/PSP Award for best new scholarly book in Economics, 1999 (from 1999)
Cole Prize Winner (from 1998)