Sharyn O'Halloran

Focus areas: Financial regulation and risk analysis, big data and computational social sciences 

On Leave for the 2023-2024 Academic Year

Sharyn O'Halloran is 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. 

O’Halloran received a BA degree in economics and political science from University of California, San Diego. O’Halloran then went on to receive her MA and PhD, also from University of California, San Diego. And a MS in Enterprise Risk Management from Columbia University. Her 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

• MS, Columbia University
• PhD, University of California, San Diego
• MA, University of California, San Diego
• BA, University of California, San Diego

Honors and Awards

• Global Policy Initiative, Columbia University