Sharyn O'Halloran

Sharyn O'Halloran is the SALI Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and, in 2006, she was named the George Blumenthal Professor of Political Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. A political scientist and economist by training, O’Halloran has written extensively on issues related to the political economy of international trade and finance, regulation and institutional reform, economic growth and democratic transitions, and the political representation of minorities.

Professor O’Halloran received a BA degree in economics and political science from the University of California, San Diego. O’Halloran then received her MA and PhD. from the University of California, San Diego, and an MS in Enterprise Risk Management from Columbia University. O'Halloran's work focuses on formal and quantitative methods and their application to politics, economics, and public policy.

Her publications include Politics, Process and American Trade Policy (University of Michigan Press), Delegating Powers (Cambridge University Press), The Future of the Voting Rights Act (Russell Sage Foundation), as well as numerous journal articles on administrative procedures and agency design, with application to U.S. trade and financial regulatory policy, including those published in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, International Organization, Yale Law Journal, NYU Law Journal, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

Education

• Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, San Diego
• M.A. Political Science, University of California, San Diego
• M.S. Enterprise Risk Management, Columbia University
• B.A. Economics and Political Science University of California, San Diego

Affiliations

• Strategic Academic Leadership Initiative (SALI) Chair Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• George Blumenthal Professor of Political Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University