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Michael Findley is an associate professor in the Department of Government and the LBJ School of Public Affairs (courtesy) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) and a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar as well as a member of the Experiments in Governance and Politics Network and the AidData Research Consortium.

Findley conducts research on civil wars, terrorism, and development and uses a variety of methods including field experiments, statistical and computational models, geospatial analysis, and some interviews. (For details, see Publications and Projects pages.) He currently conducts fieldwork in Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Colombia, Nepal, DRC, and South Sudan. 

Findley's policy work includes collaborations with the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, UNICEF, UN-PBF, UNDP, International Aid Transparency Initiative, and many aid recipient country governments (For details on policy work, see here).

Other Profiles:
Google Scholar page; ResearchGate page; LinkedIn profile

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Recent Work (See all publications here): 

• Field Experiments in Strategy Research. Forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal. see here
  
  
• Causes of Non-Compliance with International Law. Forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science. see here
  
  
• Political Exclusion, Oil, and Ethnic Armed Conflict. Forthcoming in Journal of Conflict Resolution. see here
  
  

News and Updates:

• Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) Annual Report: see here
  
  
• Comparative Political Studies Special Issue on Research Transparency: see here
  
  
• Winner of START (Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism) Outstanding Article Award for "Terrorism and Civil War" in Perspectives on Politics.