Joining Oxford from Bocconi University in Milan, Professor Parolin will be teaching, advancing research, and bringing fresh perspectives to public policy at the department. He succeeds Emeritus Professor Brian Nolan who retired last year.
“Zach’s wealth of experience and interdisciplinary insight will be invaluable in helping to further develop our understanding of economic inequality, and ultimately contribute to social reform across the world,” commented Professor Kenneth Nelson, Head of Department of Social Policy and Intervention. “His leadership and strong profile in areas of cross-national comparisons, poverty, and wellbeing incomes will help strengthen the department's research agenda in social policy, and his unique perspective will enrich our scholarly community, strengthen our teaching, and help drive change to build more equitable and just societies."
Prof Zach Parolin added: "DSPI has long been a vibrant and interdisciplinary hub for social policy and inequality research. I am thrilled to join the department and to contribute to its world-leading efforts to understand and address the consequences of poverty and inequality."
He will also lead the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity (EIO) Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and hold the post of Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.
“Issues related to economic inequality and opportunity are having a profound effect on politics and society", said Professor Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director of The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. "We welcome the appointment of a scholar of Zach’s calibre to play a leading role in Oxford’s research on this critical topic.”
Professor Parolin’s research centres on measuring, understanding the causes of, and examining the consequences of poverty, inequality, and social mobility in the United States and European Union. His work has been published in leading academic journals including Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, AEA: Papers & Proceedings, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, and Demography.
