Patrick Paul Walsh is currently on secondment to UN SDSN as Vice President of Education and Director the SDG Academy. He remains a Full Professor of International Development Studies, Director of the UCD Centre for Sustainable Development Studies and Director of the UCD M.Sc. in Sustainable Development in partnership with UN SDSN. He is the contact point for UCD in terms of UCD’s consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and a member of the UN Major Group for Science and Technology. He is also an instructor for Harvard Extension School teaching Foundations of Sustainable Development (online). He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1994. He is a Government of Ireland, Marie Curie (Brussels), IZA (Bonn), RSA (London), EIIR (Brussels) and REPOA (Tanzania) fellow. During 1992-2007 he worked in Trinity College Dublin. He left Trinity College Dublin as a Professor of Economics, College Fellow and Dean of Social and Human Sciences. He was a Visiting Professor at K.U. Leuven during 1997-1999; a Research Scholar in the Department of Economics, Harvard University, during the academic year 2002-2003. During the academic year 2014-2015 he was a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute and an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York. During 2014-15 he also worked as a Senior Adviser to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York and participated in the UN Scientific and Technological Community Major Group during the Inter-Governmental negotiations of what is now the UN 2030 Agenda. He contributed as part of the scientific expert group to the UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2015 and 2016. He has supervised thirty PhD students to completion, ten in TCD and twenty in UCD. All made major contributions to industrial, labour, transition and development issues in Economics and Politics. His contributions to teaching and learning include courses in each academic year from 1988 to 2021 in UCD, TCD, LSE, Columbia University, Harvard, K.U. Leuven and UN HLPF Learning. His professional activities include been President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. He has extensive experience providing external services for the United Nations, European Commission and World Bank. Among other journals he has published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Industrial Economics, Energy Economics and Electoral Studies. His current research is on many aspects of the U.N. 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, including Partnerships, Data, Technology, Science Policy Interface, Finance and Education