SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Seamus C. O'Cleireacain
International Affairs Building, Room 1228A
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-2251
sco4@columbia.edu

Biography:
Seamus O'Cleireacain is professor of economics at Purchase College. He also holds a position as adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. From 1988 to 1989 he was also the director of the US-EC Seminars held by the Institute for the Study of Europe, Columbia University.

A specialist on international economic policy, European economic integration, including European Monetary Union, US-EU relations, and trade policy, he is the author of "Sub-Saharan Africa's Trade Liberalization Experience" in Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa (Macmillan Press 1999), edited by Ademola Oyejide, Benno Ndulu and David Greenaway; "EC Policies Toward Japanese Trade and Investment: Implications for US-EC relations" in 1992: Europe and America (Manchester 1991), edited by George N. Yannopoulos; "Long-Term Implications of the Unified European Market: Birth of an Economic Superpower?" in Mediterranean Quarterly (Fall 1990); Third World Debt and International Public Policy (Praeger-Greenwood 1990), "The Emerging Social Dimension of Europe 1992" in 1992: Technological Challenges and European Security (Frances Pinter 1990), edited by Michael S. Steinberg; "Europe 1992 and Gaps in the European Community's Common Commercial Policy" in Journal of Common Market Studies (March 1990); "A View on the External Effects of Europe 1992" in The United States and the European Community: Convergence or Conflict? (Nijgh and Van Ditmar Universitair 1989), edited by H. M. Belein; "Northern Ireland and Irish Integration: The Role of the European Communities" in Journal of Common Market Studies (December 1983), and many others.

Professor O'Cleireacain earned a BComm in 1963 from University College, Dublin, Ireland. In 1966 he earned a MSc from University of Detroit, and in 1971 a PhD from University of Michigan. In the following three years he was Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Reading, England. From 1974 to 1977 he was appointed assistant professor at Manhattanville College. In 1985 he was visiting research fellow at the Japan Economic Research Center, Tokyo. From 1987 to 1990 Professor O'Cleireacain was an associate director in the Labor-Management Policy Studies at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY.

From 1991-94, he was in charge of the Ford Foundation's Program in International Economics and Development. He has been a consultant and advisor to the United Nations, the State Department, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.