Michael G. Findley

I study political violence, international development, illicit finance, ethics, and methodology. I publish in outlets including Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Management Science, and Cambridge University Press. I conduct fieldwork in Colombia, Afghanistan, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, and Uganda.

I am also Professor (by courtesy) at the McCombs School of Business and the LBJ School of Public Affairs, co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development, a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, a member of EGAP, and co-founder and President of Evaluasi. In 2025, I was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Toulouse School of Economics.