A CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow since 2015, Patrick M. Crowley is Full Professor in the College of Businessat Texas A&M University.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from McGill University, he specializes in studies of regional integration, with particular emphasis on the European Union.

He has published widely in journals such as the Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of Economic Integration, and the International Trade Journal, and has been the editor for several edited volumes on Europe, probably most notably the Routledge volume entitled Before and Beyond EMU which was published in 2002, and the Ashgate volume Crossing the Atlantic which was published in 2004.

He was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki) in Helsinki in 2004-2005, and then made return visits during the summers of 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. He assisted in organizing a workshop at the Bank of Finland (October 2011) and was EU Scholar in Residence at the University of Auckland in October 2012.