Economist interested in talent, science and innovation. Associate Professor at the Univ. of Bristol. Cofounder, Global Talent Fund
Bath, England
Joined August 2011
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It's Day 3 — and the final day — of the Global Talent Fund & Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Talent Economics Conference in Rome!
Session IV · Cultivating Talent: From Classroom to PhD
Session V · Frontiers in Finding Talent
Plus our Keynote Event: Rome Dialogues with John Van Reenen (LSE), with Dominique Foray (EPFL), and Camilla Benbow & David Lubinski (Vanderbilt)
Watch live on Zoom from 9am CET
us06web.zoom.us/j/8561691299…
Patrick Gaule retweeted
Preparations are underway for the 2026 Talent Economics Conference in Rome, organized by the Global Talent Fund and the @EIEF_Rome .
The conference brings together researchers across economics and related disciplines working at the frontier of the economics of talent: how exceptional talent develops, how it can be identified and nurtured, and how exceptional individuals shape science, innovation, and economic growth.
It begins October 21st with an Early Career Researchers Workshop, followed by the conference on October 22–23.
See the full program: globtalent.org/talent-econom…
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Congrats to 2026 Fields medalists Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman!
Three won Olympiad gold as teens: Deng and Tsimerman at IMO; Pardon at IOI.
In Invisible Geniuses, @patrickgaule and I found a similar rate: 14 of 26 in 1994–2018 were former IMO medalists.
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Talent economics is an exciting and growing field. Join us in Rome to present new research, exchange ideas, and help build the field.
We’re delighted to have @johnvanreenen and @prithwic as keynotes.
Organized with @patrickgaule from @GlobTalent and @gaiagdossi from @EIEF_Rome.
🚨Call for papers🚨: Talent Economics Conference
@GlobTalent and @EIEF_Rome invite submissions for the Talent Economics Conference.
#Rome 🇮🇹
📍22–23 October 2026
The conference will focus on three questions:
• How does exceptional STEM talent develop?
• How can high-potential young people be identified earlier and more reliably?
• How do exceptional individuals shape scientific discovery, productivity, and growth?
No registration fee.
Submissions are due by 23:59 CEST on 30 July 2026.
Full submission details and conference information:
global-talent-fund.webflow.i…
Join us in Rome to present, discuss, or listen to, frontier research on the economics of talent! @RuchirAgar @gaiagdossi
🚨Call for papers🚨: Talent Economics Conference
@GlobTalent and @EIEF_Rome invite submissions for the Talent Economics Conference.
#Rome 🇮🇹
📍22–23 October 2026
The conference will focus on three questions:
• How does exceptional STEM talent develop?
• How can high-potential young people be identified earlier and more reliably?
• How do exceptional individuals shape scientific discovery, productivity, and growth?
No registration fee.
Submissions are due by 23:59 CEST on 30 July 2026.
Full submission details and conference information:
global-talent-fund.webflow.i…
We are deeply appreciative of this extraordinary commitment from @XTXmarkets.
At GTF, we’re working to help exceptional young talent worldwide reach its full potential.
@globtalent @RuchirAgar
1/2 Announcing: A $40M commitment from @xtxmarkets to @GlobTalent
Many exceptionally gifted young mathematicians and scientists never get the chance to develop their talents. We are working to change that. GTF and XTX co-founded BIG Talent Scholars in 2023. With this new commitment, we will bring 150 more scholars to the world's top universities.
Patrick Gaule retweeted
🌍 Development (5–6 May): M. Mobarak (Yale), K. Orkin (Oxford), I. Rasul (UCL), P. Rossi (CREST)
👥 Migration (6–7 May): R. Abramitzky (Stanford), J. Monras (UPF), C. Theoharides (Amherst)
⚖️ Fairness (8 May): E. Fehr (Zurich), R. Bénabou (Princeton), I. Almås (Zurich)
Patrick Gaule retweeted
Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM) is back for its 3rd edition!
🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol
Three workshops: Development, Migration, and Fairness.
Submit your paper by Jan 31. Info: baem.info
Patrick Gaule retweeted
I wrote a long blot post on the economics of AI, prompted by two great workshops (Windfall and NBER), and me leaving OpenAI for METR:
TLDR: we driving in the fog.
1. There is no standard model of AI’s economic impact. Economists have been using a wide range of assumptions to model AI’s impact, there is no standard framework. There seems to me an opportunity for ambitious economists to propose deep models of AI’s impact. A promising line would concentrate on AI’s ability to find low-dimensional representations of the world.
Patrick Gaule retweeted
How to spot a genius? Insightful coverage of @globtalent's work on the importance of exceptional human talent and how to support it--great working with @TheEconomist's @asdomash.
1/ This week’s @TheEconomist cover (Asia edition):
👉 “Individuals can shift the frontier for everyone.” But how many future Einsteins are being lost—simply because of where they’re born?
But how many future Einsteins are being lost—simply because of where they’re born? 🧵
The 20th End-Of-Year Conference of Swiss Economists Abroad takes place in Bern on December 19. Submit your paper here express.converia.de/frontend… by September 30th.
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Global Talent Fund Co-Founder @patrick_gaule joins our partners at @BristolUni to share our mission: to discover, nurture, & support talented youth worldwide. Hear what BIG Scholar Dulguun Gansukh from Mongolia says about her journey.
#EconomicsOfTalent
youtube.com/watch?v=AuTa7pEl…
Excited to share this video from @BristolUni. I spoke about our work at @GlobTalent to support young talent worldwide and advance the knowledge frontier. Thank you to BIG Scholar Dulguun, for sharing her story. youtu.be/AuTa7pElopQ?si=ahil… via @YouTube
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Schools always work hard to support students who struggle. But what about talented students who find class too slow? Without challenge, talented students risk disengagement. 🥱
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🤔How does GTF define talent?
The capacity to solve novel problems efficiently in a person’s late teenage years.
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Volodymyr Chub 🇺🇦sees each math problem as a “little journey.”
He earned a 🥉at IMO 2023, and is now a BIG Scholar studying Mathematics at @JesusCollegeCam.
Patrick Gaule retweeted
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Vlad-Titus Spataru, a BIG scholar from 🇷🇴 Romania, is a two-time silver 🥈 medalist at the IMO, and had his research published in the PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research before starting to study Mathematics at @Trinity_College, @Cambridge_Uni
Insightful look at the Economics of Talent from @bbcmundo’s @ceciliabarria1 featuring the work of @GlobTalent & BIG Scholars Bilhana & Manuel. Summary 🧵& links to the article here
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🚨Big moment for the Economics of Talent 🚨
The BBC’s @bbcmundo asked us: What is the Economics of Talent? How can we open doors for exceptional young minds in the developing world?
Here’s what we shared (and what it has to do with Messi ⚽) ⬇️
Patrick Gaule retweeted
1/2 We're proud to share our inaugural class of BIG Scholars with the world! They are amazing - see their profile interviews and bios here: globtalent.org/big-scholars-…
