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'''Patrick Karl O'Brien''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS|FBA}} (born 12 August 1932) is a British historian who serves as professor emeritus of global economic history at the [[London School of Economics and Political Science]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/o/17636/Patrick%20Karl+O'BRIEN.aspx |title=Prof Patrick O'Brien, FBA Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Patrick O'Brien, FBA Profile |website=www.debretts.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002051103/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/o/17636/Patrick%20Karl+O'BRIEN.aspx |archive-date=2013-10-02}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|a4b16lOYR6k|Interview by Alan Macfarlane}}</ref>

He received a [[DPhil]] from [[Nuffield College, Oxford|Nuffield College]] ([[University of Oxford]]) in 1960 for a [[thesis]] entitled ''Government Revenue, 1793–1815: A Study of Fiscal and Financial Policy in the Wars Against France'' (supervised by [[John Habakkuk|Sir John Habakkuk]] and [[Max Hartwell]]).

O'Brien began his career at the [[School of Oriental & African Studies|School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)]], where he worked as a [[research fellow]] from 1960 to 1963 and as a [[lecturer]] from 1963 to 1970.

In 1970, he joined the faculty of [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], as [[university lecturer]] in economic history. He became a [[Reader (academic rank)|university reader]] in economic history and professorial fellow in 1984.

In 1990, he got appointed as director of the Institute of Historical Research and [[Professor]] of Economic History at the [[University of London]]. He eventually retired as [[emeritus professor]] of economic history in 1998.

O'Brien joined the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE) in 1999 as Centennial Professor of Economic History and Convenor of the Network in Global Economic History (GEHN) at the Department of Economic History. Since 2009, he is [[Professor]] of Global Economic History at LSE.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/Assets/Documents/CV/Facultyandteachers/CVPOBrien.pdf|title=CVPOBrien|last=|first=|date=|website=lse.ac.uk|access-date=}}</ref>

During his academic career, O'Brien held many visiting positions which includes : [[visiting lecturer]] at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1968, [[Visiting Associate Professor|visiting associate professor]] at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] in 1969, [[visiting professor]] at [[Yale University|Yale]] in 1978, [[fellow]] of the Davis Center at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] in 1983, visiting professor at the [[European University Institute]] in [[Florence]] in 1984, [[visiting professor]] at [[University of California, San Diego|UC San Diego]] in 1986, visiting professor at [[Columbia University|Columbia]] in 1990, visiting professor at [[Carlos III University]] in [[Madrid]] in 1993, Visiting Simon Professor at the [[University of Manchester]] in 1999, [[visiting fellow]] at the [[University of Munich]] in 2003, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor at [[Tsinghua University]] in 2010 and Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor at [[Fudan University]] in 2013.<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1141911 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 28 May 2005 (video)]

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