Paul Seabright

Paul Seabright teaches Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and has lived in the centre of the city of Toulouse in France since 2000. He is Director (since September 2012) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), and a member of the Institut d’Economie Industrielle.

He did his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College, then taught at the University of Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Churchill College. He has also held part-time teaching positions at the College of Europe in Bruges and at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Paul's current research lies in three areas of microeconomics: industrial organization and competition policy; the economics of networks and the digital society; and behavioral economics (especially the integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology with an understanding of the development of economic institutions in the very long run).

He is also a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, a Council Member of the European Economic Association, and a member of the Scientific Council of the think-tank Bruegel. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at DG-Competition of the European Commission. Since 2005 he has been an almost annual visitor at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.