Professor Kevin O’Rourke has been appointed as a Visiting Professor in Economics at UCD. Currently University of Oxford Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Kevin’s research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics. He has done a lot of work on the history of globalization, and is currently working on the history of the international economy during the interwar period. He is also interested in the political economy of trade and trade policy, in the links between globalization and war, and more generally in the history of economic growth.