Mike Findley
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Michael Findley is the Erwin Centennial Professor of Government at UT Austin. He is also Professor (by courtesy) at the McCombs School of Business and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He is the director of Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD), a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, a Provost's Teaching Fellow, and a member of EGAP. 

Findley conducts interdisciplinary research on political violence, international development, illicit finance, ethics, and methodology. He publishes in leading outlets including Cambridge University Press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Annual Review of Political Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Penn Law Review, Public Choice, American Statistician, and Complexity. He currently conducts fieldwork in Colombia, Afghanistan, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, and Uganda. (See Publications and Projects pages for more.)

Findley's policy work includes collaborations with the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, UN FACTI, UNICEF, UN Peacebuilding Fund, UN Development Program, International Aid Transparency Initiative, and many aid recipient country governments (See Policy page here).

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


Findley is also co-founder and President of Evaluasi, a startup focused on improving  social impact work and evaluation.

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​My book Global Shell Games with Dan Nielson and Jason Sharman. Feel free to have a look at the book website at the link below or the teaser video to the right. 


Recent Work (See all publications here): 
  • "Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?" Management Science.
  • "Vulnerability in Research Ethics: A Call for Assessing Vulnerability and Implementing Protections" Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. 
  • "Banking Bad." American Journal of Political Science
  • "The Tyranny of Supply." International Studies Quarterly. 
News and Updates:
  • VoxDev coverage of "Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?" 
  • J-PAL post on "Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?" paper. 
  • Appointed to hold the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Chair in Government (Sept 2021)​​
Department of Government
The University of Texas at Austin
3.102 Batts, Austin, TX, 78712 (email)
@mgfindley