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Patrick Paul Walsh received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1994. He is a Government of Ireland, Marie Curie (Brussels), IZA (Bonn), RSA (London), EIIR (Brussels) and REPOA (Tanzania) fellow.
He is currently on secondment to UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) as Vice President of Education and Director the SDG Academy. He remains a Full Professor of International Development Studies and is Director of the UCD M.Sc. in Sustainable Development.
He was elected president of President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI) in 2022. SSISI is all-island learned society established in 1847. The Society is a forum for evidence based discussions on public policy between government departments, social partners and academia. Proceedings are published in a open science diamond Journal archived in TCD TARA and listed on the Web of Science.
During 1992-2007 he worked in Trinity College Dublin. He left Trinity College Dublin as a Professor of Economics, College Fellow and Dean of Social and Human Sciences. He was a Visiting Professor at K.U. Leuven during 1997-1999; a Research Scholar in the Department of Economics, Harvard University, during the academic year 2002-2003. During the academic year 2014-2015 he was a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute and an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York. During 2014-15 he also worked as a Senior Adviser to SDSN and participated in the UN Scientific and Technological Community Major Group during the eight months of Inter-Governmental negotiations on the creation of the outcome document “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. He was also involved as a scientist in the creation of the UN GSDR 2014 and 2015 with UN DESA.
On behalf of UCD, he has secured consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and have participated in meetings of the UN HLPF, Partnership Forum, STI Forum, Youth Forum, Oceans Conference and Transforming Education Summit (TES).
He has supervised thirty PhD students to completion, ten in TCD and twenty in UCD. His contributions to teaching and learning include courses in each academic year from 1988 to 2021 in UCD, TCD, LSE, Columbia University, Harvard, K.U. Leuven and UN HLPF Learning. Among other journals he has published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, Energy Economics, Electoral Studies PluS one and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. His current research is on many aspects of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.