Professor Robert MacCulloch received his first degree in Mathematics from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Upon graduating, he worked for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand implementing their inflation targeting regime and then travelled to Oxford University where he completed his D.Phil in Economics in 1998. After further pursuing his research interests at the University of Bonn in Germany, London School of Economics and Princeton University in the United States, he joined the Business School at Imperial College in September 2004, where he is Director of the Doctoral Programme.

Professor MacCulloch's main research interest is political economy. In particular, he studies the determinants of conflict and the security of property claims, corruption and regulation, and the role of economic and political forces in shaping welfare state institutions. He has also studied happiness and the way it is affected by inequality and macroeconomic fluctuations, as well as the connection between beliefs and economic performance. His latest paper studies the effect of freedom on the taste for revolution across the world.

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